[tei-council] facsKey agayne

[Laurent Romary]

These (with the urn comment) are good points. Do you mean we could/ 
should have a uniform mechanism for pointers and keys in general?

Le 9 févr. 10 à 00:17, Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :

> A couple of conversations outside my office this afternoon suggest  
> that people who want
> to use @facs to point to an arbitrary identifier can do so trivially  
> by making up their own
> protocol. Thus
>
> <p facs="#foo">
>
> is short for the normal HTTP
>
> <p facs="http://$basedoc#foo">
>
> but
>
> <p facs="tk:foo">
>
> is equally a legal URI, where "tk" is a new adhoc protocol. Examples  
> at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Unofficial_but_common_URI_schemes
> show similar ideas - the "doi:" protocol is like this, since it  
> references
> an arbitrary identifier which does not get resolved to some web  
> address.
>
> Using @facs in this way is much better than @facsKey, IMHO, because  
> it signals
> clearly to the processing application what is going on, but does not  
> need a new
> attribute. It means the user can make use of _several_ protocols in  
> the same
> document.
>
> Or is all this completely mad?
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