[tei-council] att.typed and syntactic sugar

[Martin Holmes]

Yes, of course you're right. <persName>  is syntactic
sugar for<name type="person">, just as <orgName> is syntactic sugar for 
<name type="org"> and so on.

Got myself really confused there.

Cheers,
Martin

On 11-11-30 03:55 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>
> I think you mean persName not person. ;-)
>
> James
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> James Cummings, InfoDev, OUCS, University of Oxford (via phone)
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> Martin Holmes<mholmes at uvic.ca>  wrote:
>
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I think the basis of the confusion is in your sentence:
>
> "Alternatively, use the attribute to create syntactic sugar for another
> TEI element."
>
> Actually, it's the other way round, isn't it?<person>  is syntactic
> sugar for<name type="person">, not the reverse. You don't use the @type
> attribute to create syntactic sugar for an element; you could devolve
> the syntactic sugar (if you see what I mean) by converting<person>  to
> <name type="person">.
>
> This is based on my assumption that "syntactic sugaring" goes in only
> one direction:<name type="person">  is the simpler form (requiring a
> smaller schema with fewer elements and attributes), while<person>  is
> the sugared form (a bit less verbose, so "sweeter" to use, but requiring
> a larger schema with an extra element).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 11-11-30 03:02 PM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> The December 2 deadline for implementing tickets so that Sebastian can
>> produce a release this month is rapidly approaching, but I'm still not
>> sure how to complete this ticket.  Should this be postponed for further
>> discussion during the next Council meeting?
>>
>> On 11/26/2011 9:02 PM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>> Colleagues,
>>>
>>> I was trying to implement:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3064014&group_id=106328&atid=644065
>>>
>>>
>>> but realized I don't quite understand what we had in mind for our advice
>>> on syntactic sugar. I've added a comment with my question. Could anyone
>>> who understands this weigh in? Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kevin
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