[tei-council] Question about attribute definitions and descriptions

[James Cummings]

On 08/02/12 13:38, Martin Holmes wrote:
> But now I'm wondering why<gi>  has a<datatype>  and<tag>  doesn't. In
> fact, I'm wondering why so many attributes in the list lack a datatype.
> They all seem to be attributes which should be data.enumerated.

It does seem to happen with attributes which I would suspect 
should be data.enumerated.

> Is this just a historical accident, or is there some reason or pattern
> to it?

In all the cases I looked at the attribute values were a closed 
value list with very specific values.  Perhaps these should be 
made data.enumerated with a closed value list?

-James

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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford