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

[David Sewell]

I have entered a bug item on SF.

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Laurent Romary wrote:

> 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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