[tei-council] num

[Gabriel Bodard]

Sounds fine to me... it solves the problem I have with fractions, and 
means I have less to change in my XML.

(Any word on when <precision/> will be implemented?)

Thanks,

G

Lou Burnard a écrit :
> There having been no dissenting voices to this proposition, and it being 
> a lot easier to implement, I am now planning to go ahead and change the 
> definition of data.numeric to permit things like
> 
> <num value="22/7">pi</num>
> 
> 
> James Cummings wrote:
>> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>> Lou Burnard wrote:
>>>> This was indeed one of the options I proposed in my email. But I 
>>>> wondered whether expanding the meaning (or reducing the constraints) 
>>>> associated with "data.numeric" might not be considered to be 
>>>> flouting the Birnbaum doctrine...
>>> not at all. call it data.extendednumeric if you like. Birnbaum does
>>> not disallow expansion
>> And just to remind people, since this is occasionally trotted out as 
>> an excuse, that said doctrine does *not* prohibit breaking backwards 
>> compatibility.  In fact it says: "Council should instead feel 
>> authorized to break backward compatibility when Council concludes that 
>> the advantages of doing so outweigh the disadvantages."  So it is 
>> really just a question of whether we think doing so outweighs the 
>> disadvantages of not doing so.
>>
>> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw09.xml
>>
>> On the question of data.numeric, I see little problem in extending it 
>> (or adding an additional datatype as suggested above).
>>
>> -James
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