[tei-council] more on exemplum/@xml:lang in Specs files

[Laurent Romary]

To my view, the direction to go is to delete duplications. We need to  
have a sound and comprhensive catalogue of examples which (I am  
thinking of James' vision there) could be used on there own.
Laurent

Le 14 mai 09 à 04:33, David Sewell a écrit :

> There's only one complicating feature. At the moment, there are  
> Chinese
> "translations" of many essentially language-neutral exempla. That is,
> you have in a Specs file
>
>   <exemplum> [content] </exemplum>   ...
>   <exemplum xml:lang="zh-tw"> [content] </exemplum>
>
> where "[content]" is identical in both (I count 53 cases based
> on comparing <eg:egXML> via deep-equal().)
>
> If we tag exemplum 1 in such cases with xml:lang="und" and the
> stylesheet always processes <exemplum xml:lang="und">, then there will
> be duplicate exempla output in the Chinese version of the HTML
> reference.
>
> Should we delete these identical "translations"? The alternative is  
> not
> to display exempla with @xml:lang="und" when the doc language is
> Chinese, but that seems a very odd exception.
>
> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
>> This sounds solid to me, a good direction. It does
>> not, of course, preclude xml:lang on the actual
>> text within the example.
>>
>> I am happy to get the
>> stylesheets changed to reflect this - the algorithm
>> sounds relatively obvious.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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