[tei-council] Another issue with @pattern

[Lou Burnard]

Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> Lou Burnard a écrit :
>> yes. this means that you are saying something about the certainty of the 
>> *name* of whatever it is that #a123 resolves to (you probably should 
>> have a @degree on the element too)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I note that @degree is optional. Since I don't want to assign a 
> numerical value to degree (on either <certainty> or <precision>), but 
> just generically to say "low"--i.e. I am calling into question the 
> certainty of this element/attribute/value--it seemed best to us to omit 
> the @degree altogether. @degree='0.1' would be nonsense, IMO.
> 

Why is it nonsense to say @degree=0.1? It seems more nonsensical to say 
nothing at all -- how do I know that <precision> means "low" precision 
rather than "high" precision if you don't tell me somehow?

I suppose we could add another attribute as an alternative to @degree 
(cant think of a name though) with values "high" "low" average" as we 
did for @cert.