[tei-council] [Fwd: [ tei-Feature Requests-2531384 ] Rationalise application of @target]

[Sebastian Rahtz]

below are at least some of the uses of multiple values for @target in 
the Guidelines.

*If* (and it's a big IF) the intention was that <x target="#a #b"/> means
the same as <x target="#a"/><x target="#b"/>, then it would make
sense to turn all the cardinality "1" into "many".

But my inclination is to cut out all these  multiple targets,
and leave multiple values for when it has some meaning other
than "a list of a and b".  We really cannot have multiple values
having entirely two separate semantics in different places.

alternative, use @targets for the occasions where the multiple
values != list, and make all @target multi-value.


Specs/att.authorialIntervention.xml:    <ptr target="#COEDADD #PHAD"/>
Specs/catRef.xml:      <catRef target="#news #prov #sales2"/>
Specs/locus.xml:        <locus target="#F1r #F1v #F2r">ff. 1r-2r</locus>
Specs/ptr.xml:      <ptr target="#p143 #p144"/>
Guidelines/en/CE-CertaintyResponsibility.xml:She had always liked 
<placeName xml:id="CE-p1b">Essex</placeName>.<note type="uncertainty" 
resp="#MSM" target="#CE-p1a #CE-p1b">It
Guidelines/en/CO-CoreElements.xml:   <item>Sallets censured <ptr 
target="#p143 #p144"/></item>
Guidelines/en/HD-Header.xml:<egXML 
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"><catRef target="#b.a1 #b.a3 
#b.a5"/>
Guidelines/en/HD-Header.xml:<egXML 
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"><catRef target="#b.a4 
#b.d2"/></egXML></p><p>The <att>scheme</att> attribute
Guidelines/en/HD-Header.xml:<egXML 
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"><catRef target="#b.a4 #b.d2" 
scheme="http://www.example.com/browncorpus"/>
Guidelines/en/MS-ManuscriptDescription.xml:              <locus 
target="#f1r #f1v #f2r">ff. 1r-2r</locus>
Guidelines/en/PH-PrimarySources.xml:which may be described as follows: 
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"><note target="#sic-1 
#sic-2">Substitution of a more familiar word which resembles
Guidelines/en/SA-LinkingSegmentationAlignment.xml:<ptr 
xml:id="l3.283-284" target="#l3.283 #l3.284"/></egXML>
Guidelines/en/TC-CriticalApparatus.xml:<note target="#r105 
#f105">Furnivall's expansion implies that the bar


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