[tei-council] FR nuncles: new element tei:objectType

[Lou Burnard]

My gut feeling when people start using phrases like "my gut feeling" and 
"looks weird" is to deplore the disappearance of rational argument.

The objection that "objectType" can be used out of meaningful contexts 
is not relevant to considerations of what its name should be: the same 
argument would apply whatever it was called.



On 05/01/11 12:20, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2011, at 12:09, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>
>> (a) for tei:object: GB, LR&  SR think it looks nicer;
>>
>> (b) for tei:objectType: LB says it's ambiguous (should refer to object
>> itself, not a type or class of object); SIG may want to use tei:object
>> to denote something broader than this MS Desc context, and closer to the
>> meaning Lou identifies.
>>
>> Personally, although I'm on side (a), I'm pretty convinced (as I believe
>> were the rest of the nuncles) by argument (b).
>
> yes, its a good argument.  but objectType is so weird. it makes sense
> when its a descent of<objectDesc>  but it will start being used elsewhere, as
> in " I can't get down off the<objectType>fence</objectType>" .
>
> look at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/ref-model.pPart.msdesc.html
> and see where else it may occur. scary. in<catchwords>…..
>
> my gut feeling is to go with<object>, but maybe we should vote on it.
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