[tei-council] naming names again (<precision> and <certainty>)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:
>
> Might this cause even more confusion by its similarity to the @select 
> attribute in XSLT which can contain more than a pattern? @select, I 
> believe, can contain a full xpath expression, whereas say @match in 
> <xsl:template> can only contain a pattern.  
true.

so <certaintly select="concat('a','b')"> would be a nonsense

if I understand it right, a pattern always identifies a node set, whereas
a path can return other datatypes?
> That is my udnerstanding from reading 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#patterns at least.
>
> Would @match be better? or worse? I understand that it maybe doesn't 
> sound as nice.
>
> <certainty target="#FOO" match="@bar">
>
yeah, I don't mind. its more passive than @select.

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