[tei-council] spanning milestones

[Lou Burnard]

The two are clearly related, yes.

IThe difference is that my proposal doesnt involve any schematron mumbo 
jumbo, I guess.

James Cummings wrote:
> Shouldn't this really come under the existing feature request that I 
> submitted:
> 'Add more elements to att.spanning with schematron constraint - ID: 
> 2834511' 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2834511&group_id=106328&atid=644065 
> that has already had some comments on it?
>
> -James
>
> Lou Burnard wrote:
>   
>> I just added the following proposal to the sf feature request queues....
>>
>> Make all milestoneLike elements spanning
>>
>> Adding all model.milestoneLike elements to the att.spanning class would 
>> address
>> some outstanding issues about the handling of multiple hierarchies in
>> a simple way. It would deliver on the rather vaguely worded promise
>> that TEI supports both a page-line and a div-para hierarchy, by
>> simplifying automatic conversion between them, and also addressing a
>> long standing technical issue about handling page boundaries.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> <p xml:id="para1"> ... <pb n="1" xml:id="pb1" spanTo="#pb2"/> ... </p>
>> <p xml:id="para2"> ... <pb n="2" xml:id="pb2" spanTo="#pb3"/> ... </p>
>>
>> could then be automatically processed into
>>
>> <milestone unit="p" xml:id="para1" spanTo="#para2"/> ...
>> <page n="1" xml:id="pb1"> ... 
>> <milestone unit="p" xml:id="para2" spanTo="#para3"/>
>> </page>
>> <page n="2" xml:id="pb2" spanTo="#pb3"/>
>> <milestone unit="p" xml:id="para3" spanTo="#para4"/>
>>
>>
>> Cost is that you have to have identifiers on everything. Concerns that
>> the spanning links only go in one direction could be addressed by
>> extending att.spanning to provide additionally a @spanFrom attribute.
>>
>> Could also consider not using xml:id but ident/key co-reference. This
>> would effectively implement "horse".
>>
>>
>>
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