[tei-council] idno, xml:lang, ref and att.pointing

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Fri Sep 16 05:46:50 EDT 2011


No, I think Laurent is saying that this example is perhaps not a very 
good one and one that should bne reconsidered!

There is a ticket on this, if i remember correctly.

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On 16/09/11 10:27, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> [This may be showing my complete lack of knowledge about manuscript encoding.]
>
> Are you saying that Martin's example (lifted from the standard):
>
>   <idno type="cbeta">Taisho Tripitaka Vol. T08, No. 230</idno>
>
> is considered to contain no linguistic content and automated
> decomposition of it into it's constituent parts is of no interest or
> utility?
>
> If you are, that would surprise me, because I had assumed that it was
> conceptually similar to a bibliographic reference, which my thesis
> code did reasonably well on.
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Laurent Romary<laurent.romary at inria.fr>  wrote:
>> I agree with Kevin. I would rather think that you need to identify which elements in your document should bear a linguistic processing and which not. Typically you should certainly be able to rule out<idno>
>>
>> Le 15 sept. 2011 à 22:04, Kevin Hawkins a écrit :
>>
>>> On 9/15/2011 3:46 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Kevin Hawkins
>>>> <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info>    wrote:
>>>>> I prefer Stuart's (I) and (II) over (III), which seems needlessly obtuse
>>>>> to me.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, since a  update 2006 of ISO 639-2 (see
>>>> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php ), use of
>>>> xml:lang="zxx" to mark non-linguistic data has been standardised. I'll
>>>> not comment on the obtuseness or otherwise of ISO 639-2.
>>>
>>> Right, I didn't doubt that Stuart would do this in a standard way.  What
>>> I'm saying is that asking users of the TEI to declare the
>>> "linguistic-ness" of an identifier is bizarre to me.
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