[tei-council] facsKey agayne

[Laurent Romary]

Awesome. That would be an important move for the TEI framework. May I  
ask all of you in the council to brainstorm a little on the  
consequence and be ready to have this put on the Dublin table (maybe  
with a generic session on (x)pointers).


Le 9 févr. 10 à 10:09, Lou Burnard a écrit :

> That is the proposal, yes. The syntax of data.URI supports  
> functionality equivalent to (or better than) data.key, so we can  
> combine the two in one attribute,
>
> Laurent Romary wrote:
>> 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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>>>
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>>>
>>>
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