[tei-council] Another issue with @pattern

[O'Donnell, Dan]

I agree with James & Sebastian that we should plow on with this, though I agree, Lou, that there are some real implications. One of them might be that @pattern is not the right name. Adding an xpath selector parallel to target might have wider uses. Likewise for this use of @locus to mean something like scope.

It might be that we need more time to digest it. But I say let's keep going. It is very cool.

-dan

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Daniel O'Donnell
University of Lethbridge
(From my mobile telephone)

--- original message ---
From: "Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [tei-council] Another issue with @pattern
Date: June 8, 2009
Time: 3:6:3 

Lou Burnard wrote:
> If the can of worms that @path opens proves to be a pandora's box, then 
> I propose to withdraw it hastily, and replace it with one or other of 
> the following less attractive hacks:
>
> a) restore the possibility of specifying that the locus of uncertainty 
> is an attribute value by allowing for a value of "@" + anyWord on @locus
>
> b) replace @pattern by an ad hoc @attribute attribute
>
>   
yikes no, stick with this good stuff. we can add and elucidate
prose explanations at our leisure

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Sebastian Rahtz      
Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services
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