[tei-council] facsKey agayne

[Martin Holmes]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On 9 Feb 2010, at 15:40, James Cummings wrote:
>> I think someone should post a summary of the issue to TEI-L for 
>> wider discussion.
> 
> I was waiting for more thoughts; I dont want to look too stupid on TEI-L.
> ("hi" to all those people reading this list via Google anyway….)
> 
>> Would this also mean that other places we have say a @ref and a 
>> @key that we might deprecate @key in favour of optionally using 
>> @ref in this manner as well?  
> ideally

I really like this idea in principle. IIRC, there isn't yet a formal 
method of deprecating an element or attribute, though, is there?

We also need to think about @cRef here. I've used that on occasion, and 
have been caught (by Syd, naturally) failing to supply "a canonical 
reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI 
header", as I'm supposed to. If we're encouraging the use of custom 
protocols in @facs and elsewhere, do we also want to encourage or 
require some equivalent documentation of a method for discovering the 
actual destination of the pointer?

Cheers,
Martin

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