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

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Wed Nov 23 23:53:13 EST 2011


I unterstand and tend to agree to this notion of context, but how would you tag such an identifier in plain text, like in a discussion about ISBN's, PND's.... or Wikipedia identifiers?

Le 23 nov. 2011 à 23:07, Martin Holmes a écrit :

> 
> 
> On 11-11-23 02:01 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> 
>> On 23 Nov 2011, at 21:08, Lou Burnard wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> absolutely. this is the point I was trying to make too when I used
>> the word "context". its something which must have a meaningful parent
>> or  ancestor to which it applies.
> 
> I completely misunderstood you -- sorry about that. I thought you meant 
> "context within which the id is meaningful", rather than "context to 
> which the <idno> applies".
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
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