[tei-council] Consistency in attribute values
Martin Holmes
mholmes at uvic.ca
Fri Nov 25 08:54:41 EST 2011
I can list all the examples in context -- I think it's the context that
matters here. I'll do that when I get to work.
Just out of interest, if an <idno type="url"> was inside a <bibl>, would
it be right?
Cheers,
Martin
On 11-11-25 05:50 AM, Laurent Romary wrote:
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> Le 25 nov. 2011 à 14:43, Martin Holmes a écrit :
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>> 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.
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> 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]
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> @Martin: can you list all examples? and/or see whether they would be "real" idno's ?
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>>
>> 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:
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>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dr James Cummings, InfoDev
>>>>> Oxford University Computing Services
>>>>> University of Oxford
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>>>> Laurent Romary
>>>> INRIA& HUB-IDSL
>>>> laurent.romary at inria.fr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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> Laurent Romary
> INRIA& HUB-IDSL
> laurent.romary at inria.fr
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