[tei-council] Mime types and "Mandatory when applicable"?

[Martin Holmes]

On 11-08-27 03:07 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Section #ABNOT in P4 does contain a definition. But the whole of that
> section was rewritten for P5, and all of the "notational conventions"
> were removed.

This is that definition:

mandatory when applicable
     required under the appropriate conditions; may be omitted if not 
applicable

It still means ****-all to me, quite honestly. Could you explain how 
that would apply to the situation I specified:

> 	<ref target="blah.xml"/>
>
> it's clear that @mimeType is "applicable" -- you could use it:
>
> 	<ref target="blah.xml" mimeType="application/xml" />
>
> but surely we're not insisting that people use it for all links like
> this? So does this mean that "mandatory if applicable" is not the case
> for <ptr> and <ref>, and if so, do we need to change the definition of
> @mimeType?
>
> Also, I wonder what mime type could/should be applied to fragment targets:
>
> <ptr
>
> target="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xpointer/#xpointer(id('chum')/quote)"/>
>
> Any ideas?

Cheers,
Martin

>
>
> On 26/08/11 21:31, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> On 26 Aug 2011, at 16:21, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>
>>>    it's defined as "mandatory
>>> when applicable". I realize that although I've seen this many times, I
>>> have no idea what it means.
>>
>> I don't think mwa means _anything_ . I am sure Lou can tell us
>> what it tried to mean 20 years ago, but I see no meaningful use of it now.
>> There are about 35 uses of it. Lets purge them...
>> --
>> Sebastian Rahtz
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