[tei-council] xml:lang="eng"

Thu Dec 8 08:54:12 EST 2011

I've fixed transpose.xml. I honestly wasn't winding anyone up -- who 
knows what obscure examples might have come from our community?). I'll 
start fixing the CDATA islands later. There are lots of them. Some need 
to be CDATA, actually -- they're pseudo-code or schema language -- but 
most are I think fixable.

Breakfast time now.

Cheers,
Martin

On 11-12-08 05:49 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 08/12/11 13:45, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> I've fixed a bunch of language codes. I have two remaining questions:
>>
>> 1. transpose.xml has this example:
>>
>> <exemplum xml:lang="unk"><egXML
>> xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">     <transpose>
>>          <ptr target="#ib02"/>
>>          <ptr target="#ib01"/>
>>       </transpose>
>>
>> There is a language code "unk", but it is for the language Enawené-Nawé,
>> which I have never heard of. I suspect what was intended in this case
>> was "und", for "undetermined". Shall I go ahead and change that, or does
>> someone remember having a particular fondness for an example in
>> Enawené-Nawé?
>
>
> This is what we call a wind-up right? Please change to "und".
>
>
>>
>> 2. The reason the xml:lang="eng" problems didn't show up through
>> conventional XQuery- and XPath-based diagnosis is that those examples in
>> ST-Infrastructure.xml are done as CDATA, like this:
>>
>>     <egXML xml:lang="und" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
>> <![CDATA[<TEI>
>> <teiHeader  xml:lang="eng">
>>      <!-- ... -->
>> </teiHeader>
>> <text  xml:lang="fra">
>> <body>
>> <div>
>>     <!-- chapter one is in French -->
>> </div>
>> <div xml:lang="deu">
>>     <!-- chapter two is in German -->
>> </div>
>> <div>
>>     <!-- chapter three is French -->
>> </div>
>> <!-- ... -->
>> </body>
>> </text></TEI>]]></egXML>
>>
>> I don't know why they're done this way, rather than putting the elements
>> in the Examples namespace as normal. Does anyone know?
>>
>
>
> Yes. They are done like that because they are incomplete and hence
> invalid -- the teiHeader notably -- and they predate the invention of
> "feasibly valid" as a concept.
>
> So imho you shd feel free to fix them. And to add the reference to the
> new list of approved language identifiers too while you're at it.
>