[tei-council] Disambiguation of <ident> and <idno> (and also <gi>)

[Lou Burnard]

>> -------
>> <ident>  should be used for tokens such as variable names, class names,
>> type names, function names etc. in formal programming languages. (It
>> should not be used for element and attribute names in XML, for which the
>> special elements<gi>  and<att>  are provided.)

+1 from me for this definition


>>
>> <idno>  should be used for labels which uniquely identify an object or
>> concept in a formal cataloguing system such as a database or an RDF
>> store, or in a distributed system such as the World Wide Web.


This misses the crucial point that you can't have an <idno> floating 
around in space. It has to be inside something for which it supplies the 
identifier. I think of it as being like xml:id, but using other rules. 
Though of course you could do something mad like

<bibl xml:id="xyz">
...
<idno type="xmlId">xyz</idno>
</bibl>

I suppose





>     <p>  variable<ident>name</ident>  is declared here</p>
>
> makes sense, but
>
>    <p>  variable<idno>name</idno>  is declared here</p>
>
> means ??? supplies an ID for this para? anyway, wrong.
>

what he said.