[tei-council] new attribute @rational on num - ID: 2673045

David Sewell dsewell at virginia.edu
Tue Mar 17 16:40:20 EDT 2009


I am going to amend my vote on this to

YES for @valueType

per comment on SourceForge at

https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2673045&group_id=106328&atid=644065

David

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Gabriel Bodard wrote:

> I like Peter's solution of @value/@valueType (as I just noted in SF); it's
> more elegant that my suggestion, and at least *some* irrational numbers can be
> expressed in cdata (pi, for example). If it is not feasible to implement this
> in RNG--and would mean, for example, not controlling the content of @value at
> all--then, obviously, I vote _yes_ for the addition of @rational.
>
> G
>
> David Sewell a écrit :
> > Allowing num/@rational as a complement to num/@value is a simple solution to
> > the problem that would meet many people's needs, but I don't see it as an
> > elegant general-case solution to the problem of associating the textual
> > content of <num> with an unambiguous and/or processable value. Just to take
> > one of the most obvious examples,
> >
> >    <p>Is it true that some fundamentalists wanted to define
> >      <num>pi</num> as equal to <num>3</num>?</p>
> >
> > You can't express pi with either @value or @rational. It would probably be
> > better for us to defer to a more systematic language like MathML if people
> > need to express complex numeric values, probably by means of a referring
> > attribute. Maybe add <num> to att.declaring so one could point to a chunk of
> > MathML in the header...
> >
> > Anyway, I wouldn't object to adding @rational as proposed by Gaby. I don't
> > think the @value/@valuetype solution will work as complex values will be
> > hard to express as character data.
> >
> > David
> >
>
>

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