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

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Thu Nov 24 07:42:04 EST 2011


Le 24 nov. 2011 à 13:39, Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :

> 
> On 24 Nov 2011, at 11:48, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>> 
>>> just what <ident> is for, surely? it is sugar for <hi rend="identifier">
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
> 
> <idno> is a superset of <ident>.  It does the same job, but adds extra semantics, viz that
> not only am I identifying this as an ID in general, but actually as the actual ID of my parent object.
> 

Should they then have the same content model (ident becoming recursive if Idno is)?


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