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

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Thu Nov 24 07:53:22 EST 2011



Le 24 nov. 2011 à 13:51, Lou Burnard a écrit :

> On 24/11/11 12:42, Laurent Romary wrote:
>> 
>> 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)?
> 
> Hard to say no to that... tho I'd still rather see <hi> permitted in 
> there....
> 

OK. I suggest to finalize the work on idno as a priority and take the time to think about the coherent idno/ident/ref scheme later.



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