[tei-council] Another issue with @pattern

[O'Donnell, Dan]

I agree, Peter, that we should be thinking of this as part of the pointers rather than a mechanism for this one element. And you, Lou, and Gabby are beginning to convince me that maybe we should come up with a reduced solution to the problem with certainty while we digest the larger proposal. Maybe adding sthing like @path is a P5.5 thing.

If Gabby's suggestions answer the brokenness Lou discovered perhaps we should pursue those. In doing it though we should keep an eye on the possibility that we'll be adding a much more powerful approach in the medium term and so try to makes sure we build something now that looks robust enough to survive subsequent developments.

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

--- original message ---
From: "Peter Boot" <pboot at xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [tei-council] Another issue with @pattern
Date: June 8, 2009
Time: 12:13:55 

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

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