[tei-council] nym/@parts

[Martin Holmes]

At first I thought it must be a typo -- someone copying from 
one-to-infinity on another attribute and misreading it as 1-100 -- but 
SVN says different:

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r2418 | louburnard | 2007-05-07 14:36:57 -0700 (Mon, 07 May 2007) | 2 lines

removing @old on handShift; allowing up to 100 targets for nym at parts


Lou, do you remember why?

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-02-01 02:39 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> In reading through things (and correcting non-schema things
> relating to an old bug assigned to me) I happened to notice:
>
> http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/job/TEIP5-Documentation/ws/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-nym.html
>
> The @parts attribute on<nym>  is limited to 1 - 100 occurrences
> of data.pointer.  Although I can't picture a good use case for
> more than 50 myself... there are plenty of places where we allow
> 1 - infinity pointers as an attribute value.  Why are we so
> specific that there can't be more than 100 on nym/@part in specific?
>
> I ask this in full knowledge that I have hazy recollection of
> being part of the working group that introduced<nym>, but no
> recollection of the seemingly arbitrary limit in itself.
>
> Just curious,
>
> -James
>

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)