[tei-council] Spec for @n (ticket # 3441933)

[Laurent Romary]

Thanks Martin. I see tickets have been treated. Can I ask the council members at large if some have planned to finalize some implementations in the coming week-end. Depnding on answers, I would push the button this week-end or early on monday.

Le 9 déc. 2011 à 18:10, Martin Holmes a écrit :

> In <http://purl.org/TEI/BUGS/3441933>, Michelle Dalmau rightly points 
> out that the formal datatype of @n differs from the value description:
> 
> [quote]
> Datatype 1–∞ occurrences of data.word
> 
> separated by whitespace
> 
> Values 	the value may contain only letters, digits, punctuation 
> characters, or symbols: it may not contain whitespace or word separating 
> characters. It need not be restricted to numbers.
> [/quote]
> 
> My guess is that this arose because at some point the datatype was 
> changed to allow multiple values, but the <valDesc> was not altered to 
> match it. I've therefore expanded the valDesc as follows:
> 
> "The value consists of one or more instances of data.word. Each instance 
> may contain only letters, digits, punctuation
> characters, or symbols: it may not contain whitespace or word
> separating characters. It need not be restricted to
> numbers."
> 
> This seems an important issue and I'd like to get it into Laurentian, so 
> I've committed this change. If there's something I'm missing, or if it's 
> the wrong solution, please correct me asap.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
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Laurent Romary
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