[tei-council] @key to be deprecated?

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Mon Sep 19 08:47:00 EDT 2011


I would argue strongly against dropping @key. Would anyone argue in favour?

I think if we do discuss it, it should be from the point of view of 
settling on a more detailed set of recommendations on how to use it 
(along the lines of the methods proposed by Sebastian and Kevin).

Cheers,
Martin

On 11-09-18 11:45 PM, Laurent Romary wrote:
> Now that I read the ticket again, it looks like a strong pre-P6 item to be put on the November meeting agenda: "magic token" or shall we drop @key?
>
>
> Le 16 sept. 2011 à 15:30, Kevin Hawkins a écrit :
>
>> I'm not sure what made Martin recall this discussion about deprecating
>> @key, but this is exactly what I was brought up in another thread
>> yesterday.  See:
>>
>> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/tcm45.xml
>>
>> for which the discussion about @key seems to reference this ticket:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2919640&group_id=106328&atid=644065
>>
>> --Kevin
>>
>> On 9/16/2011 2:08 AM, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>> HI Martin,
>>> I don't remember such a thing, and @key is indeed needed in many cases where there is no reference description for a given entity.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> Le 15 sept. 2011 à 23:34, Martin Holmes a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I seem to remember some discussion about deprecating @key, or changing
>>>> it to a URI, but I can't find any mention of it in the archives or on
>>>> SF. Does anyone remember anything about this? I find I really need it
>>>> for something, in a context where I can't use a URI, so I want to make
>>>> sure it's going to continue to be available.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>> --
>>>> Martin Holmes
>>>> University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
>>>> (mholmes at uvic.ca)
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