[tei-council] <salute>: why in model.divTop but not model.DivBottom?

[Laurent Romary]

Hi David,
For the time being, I would suggest to have an SF entry. It's the best  
way to keep track of the issue and link to a solution (whether or not  
it is linked with the work of the SIG).
Laurent

Le 18 mai 09 à 18:24, David Sewell a écrit :

> Council folk (and Syd),
>
> Please take a (or another) look at Hilde Bøe's question about loss of
> flexibility for <salute> resulting from the move from P4 to P5:
>
> http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0904&L=TEI-L&T=0&F=&S=&P=518
>
> The heart of her complaint is, "I have problems understanding why
> <salute> is not a member of P5's model.divBottom, when it was a member
> of divbot (the equivalent of model.divBottom) in P4?"
>
> I have just spent some time trying to figure this out. The history  
> goes
> something like this:
>
> 1. earliest Sourceforge version of salute.xml (early 2005) has  
> salute in
>
> 	tei.divtop, tei.divbottom
>
> 2. for a while, starting in late 2005 (r1053), salute is a member only
> of model.divWrapper or variants thereof
>
> 3. finally, in Syd's August 2007 commit (r2936), salute becomes a  
> member
> of model.divTop only, based on Council discussion of the new  
> divTopPart
> / divBottomPart system in July 2007. That situation persists.
>
> I cannot find any *explicit* discussion of leaving <salute> out of
> divBottom or divBottomPart. I suppose it may have been felt that at  
> the
> top of a document, a salutation often stands alone, whereas at the
> bottom it is usually accompanied by other components (like <signed>),
> and therefore should be inside a <closer>. But nobody ever actually  
> said
> so, that I can see.
>
> Should this be filed as a SourceForge bug or feature request? Or  
> should
> we hold off on any changes to <salute> until the Correspondence SIG  
> (or
> somebody) makes larger recommendations on tagging of correspondence?
>
> David
>
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