[tei-council] Fwd: Some more on notatedMusic to the council

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 28 Jun 2011, at 20:50, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 
> This was exactly my point: We CAN'T look to XHTML, because it's a format 
> with clearly-defined user-agent rules, and the tags you mention have 
> their meaning in the context of those rules. TEI is not the same kind of 
> beast at all. In XHTML, <a> means "create a hyperlink/anchor", and <img> 
> means "render an image here". 

ok. but that's a bit of a purist argument, that the processing semantics
of <ptr> and <graphic> are entirely in the mind of the user.  Surely in 
practice we do agree? after all, our prose says

graphic: indicates the location of an inline graphic
ptr:          defines a pointer to another location

and the man in the street would naturally think (I claim) that they
would generally map these to <img> and <a> when they make HTML.
After all, if the semantics were so fluid, we'd not have two tags.

But let's step back a bit from all this - is the rest of the Council happy
with Raffaele's proposed music tag as it stands? if so, then I lose the
vote, and let's move on. Only if others share my concern about its content
model need we continue the debate.
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