[tei-council] Consistency in attribute values

[Laurent Romary]

Le 25 nov. 2011 à 14:43, Martin Holmes a écrit :

> Found it. The "URL" version is in idno.xml itself.
> 
> So we have 120 instances of "url", and one of "URL". Do we change all the existing instances to "URL"?
> 
> I have lots of instances of <idno type="url"> in my projects, having just taken what I saw in the Guidelines as good practice.

This is exactly the point. Who in this council think that it is good practice? And that ref would not be a better choice. [letting aside the debate ref/ptr, OK]

@Martin: can you list all examples? and/or see whether they would be "real" idno's ?

> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> On 11-11-25 05:38 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> We have 120 instances of<idno type="url">  (lower-case), and now I can't
>> find the one which is upper-case. Weird.
>> 
>> Anyway, I think if<idno type="url">  is wrong (in either case), that's a
>> fairly big change.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>> 
>> On 11-11-25 12:16 AM, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>> 
>>> Le 25 nov. 2011 à 09:14, James Cummings a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> On 25/11/11 06:07, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>>>> Two answers on this: - organisation issuing their identifiers should
>>>>> have a policy concerning the way they appear (OTA should know whether
>>>>> they're OTA or ota, not us)
>>>> 
>>>> Sure but I think martin's point is that we need to then be consistent
>>>> with them. When I worked for the OTA we generally referred to it in all
>>>> uppercase, OTA.
>>> 
>>> No problem with this.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If we have URL and url I'd have said also to go for URL.
>>> 
>>> I think I disagree, if we have URL, we need to turn the idno's into ref's.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -James
>>>> 
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>>>> Dr James Cummings, InfoDev
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>>>> University of Oxford
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Laurent Romary
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