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

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jun 11 12:00:24 EDT 2009


Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
> though. We're really introducing the ability to use xpath2. @target is 
> simply a URL shorthand for //*[xml:id='x']/. Mixing syntaxes and 
> dividing paths over multiple attributes like this should, IMO, really be 
> seen as poor practice, however convenient it might seem.
>   
saying <certainty match="//*[xml:id='x']/ ">
is readable, though? the word does seem
to convey the "path" semantics too

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