[tei-council] Another issue with @pattern

[Peter Boot]

Lou Burnard schreef:
> Let's not lose sight of the problem we're trying to solve here.
> 
> 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:
> 
> b) replace @pattern by an ad hoc @attribute attribute

FWIW, I would go for this.

It's not that I don't like the pattern proposal, but my impression is 
that it needs more time.

One of my questions would be: we would be introducing the pattern 
facility on what are after all rather specialized if not obscure 
elements, but we have tons of elements and attributes that do pointing 
(ptr, @ana, note/@target, ...), and that might profit from the same 
feature. Are we willing to extend it to these other cases?

Peter