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

[Lou Burnard]

On 24/11/11 11:48, Laurent Romary wrote:
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> Le 24 nov. 2011 à 10:14, Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :
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>> On 24 Nov 2011, at 04:53, Laurent Romary wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> just what<ident>  is for, surely? it is sugar for<hi rend="identifier">
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> That's exactly what I (didn't - indeed) want (ed) to hear from you. From an ontological point of view I don't like so much to see the same object receiving a schizophrenic treatment depending on where it appears (and we do mean the same thing in both cases).
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 From an ontological point of view, though we have to accept that there 
is a difference between "this is an identifier" and "this is the 
identifier of this particular object" ... the difference between AN 
identifier and THE identifier, if you like