[tei-council] Fwd: Re: naming: xxxList vs xxxxGrp

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Fri Oct 14 10:39:25 EDT 2011



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Subject: Re: [tei-council] naming: xxxList vs xxxxGrp
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:39:00 +0100
From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk>

On 14/10/11 15:36, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 14 Oct 2011, at 16:11, Lou Burnard wrote:
>
>>
>> "processed together" is the wrong phrase, apologies. What these things
>> have in common, and what distinguishes them from lists, is that the
>> order of their children is not significant. I think.
>
>
> ah. in that case, our listPerson, listPlace etc are wrong, since they
> are not ordered lists....
> --
>

? really? I think they are. All xml child elements have an intrinsic
ordering. Maybe I should have phrased it as saying that *Grp children
are *not* ordered.



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