[tei-council] <egXML> example

[Lou Burnard]

Dear Alan Partridge [joke for brits only]

Your aha moment is plausible, though I think in fact the purpose of the 
@valid was just to check whether the colour change introduced by its 
presence at the outer level worked: i.e. to test the stylesheets, not 
exemplify the use of this attribute.

But your changes seem like an improvement.



On 24/03/12 14:50, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I think I just had an aha moment:
>
> If the purpose of the example is to illustrate the use of @valid, then
> @valid needs also to be on the embedded CDATA<egXML>  as well as the
> outer one:
>
>      <exemplum xml:lang="en">
>        <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" xml:lang="und"
> 	   valid="false">
> <![CDATA[
>          <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" valid="false">
>            <langUsage>
>              <language ident="fr">English</language>
>            </langUsage>
>          </egXML>
> <!-- Though syntactically valid, this example is incorrect -->
> ]]>
>        </egXML>
>      </exemplum>
>
> The comment also needs to point out what is being illustrated:
>
> <!-- Though syntactically valid, this example is incorrect because
>        the text of the<language>  element does not match its @ident
>        value. Therefore the attribute @valid is set to false.  -->
>
> Now, if I'm right, the purpose of the example will be apparent. I've
> implemented that change and we'll see what the result looks like when
> Jinks has finished with it in an hour or so:
>
> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/job/TEIP5-Documentation/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-egXML.html>
>
> I'm still not sure if we should have that as the first example of
> <egXML>, but that's a different question.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-03-24 06:45 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> this thing does seem extraordinary.  if we revert to
>>
>> <exemplum xml:lang="en">
>>       <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" xml:lang="und">
>>         <![CDATA[<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
>>           <langUsage>
>>             <language ident="fr">French</language>
>>           </langUsage>
>>         </egXML>]]>
>>       </egXML>
>>     </exemplum>
>>
>> it is entirely valid, but misleading, cos the XML is not XML just
>> looks like it. so I feel inclined to keep "valid=false", lose the comment,
>> and correct the semantics.
>>
>> if you wonder its in CDATA to avoid the whole thing being processed.
>> --
>> Sebastian Rahtz
>> Head of Information and Support Group, Oxford University Computing Services
>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>
>> Sólo le pido a Dios
>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
>>
>>
>>