[tei-council] Another issue with @pattern

Daniel Paul O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 18:00:00 EDT 2009


Apart from wondering about the att title, I'm happy with the direction 
things are going. Any niggles I'm been raising are devil's advocate. 
Well done all!

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> I'd be really unhappy at the idea of introducing
> a temporary kludge which got replaced in a year's
> time. That seems like the worst possible outcome.
>
> I'd also be really unhappy to delay the introduction
> of <precision>, if it holds up Epidoc from moving
> to P5. Perhaps it is just the circles I move in,
> but I see bringing Epidoc back into the fold
> as big deal.
>
> In practice, I think the fact that XPath 2 and 
> URI + XPointer can theoretically do the same job
> is just a confusing state which we have to live with.
> I believe that the distinction between
>
>  - target: identifies the single point in the document
>    which is the context for the assertion
>  - path: describes the nodeset in relation to the context
>    which we'd like to make a remark about
>
> _is_ clear enough.
>
> Whether we add @path as an alternate/extension to other
> places where @target now lives depends on an analysis
> of those contexts. Remember that XPath identifies
> a node in an XML structure, while a URI identifies a
> resource of any time. So @resp="lou.png" is as legal
> as @resp="#lou". so XPath is not a a universal answer.
>   

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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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University of Lethbridge

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