[tei-council] <egXML> example

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 25 Mar 2012, at 00:02, Martin Holmes wrote:

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> It does bring up another issue that I've been thinking about for a while, though: a single specification file contains not only its element but also any attributes which are defined on the element, and which may be unique to it. There's no way (to my knowledge) to specify that any given example is focused on the use of the element or one of its attributes. It would be helpful if there were a way to specify what an example is supposed to be exemplifying.

it's a fair point.  Back in the olden days when I was working on http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Graphics-Companion-The-Edition/dp/0321508920,
we tagged each example with a list of macro names (in that case) for which we wanted an entry in the index at this point. The same
technique would apply here - yes, it shows a <p>, but its not an especially interesting use of <p> worth showing people.

One could literally use index terms for the job, inside <exemplum>

But the amount of retrofitting work needed is fearsome.
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