[tei-council] targetLang in att.pointing and schemaSpec

[Piotr Bański]

Thanks to Stuart's wiki list, I noticed that targetLang is now defined
in two places: (a) att.pointing (new) and (b) schemaSpec (old).

They don't differ in the datatype, but in the semantics ((a) identifies,
(b) apparently prescribes) and the context ((a) accompanies @target and
points at a remote resource, (b) acts locally; the Schematron rule for
(a) is not applicable to (b)).

(b) is listed in 23.4.1 (description pulled from the spec, there is no
independent discussion of it), and actually, I don't fully understand
what it is meant to do: "specifies which language to use when creating
the objects in a schema if names for elements or attributes are
available in more than one language".

What should I do?

1. leave them as they are, effectively (b) becoming now a local override
of (a), just like in the case of e.g. @type (but note that the situation
is not fully analogous!)

2. rename (a), but it makes so much sense to leave this name, cf. [1],
because it really nicely goes together with @target, and renaming it to
the originally suggested "refLang" would create the somewhat misleading
network of @target, @refLang (supposed to always accompany @target) and
@targetLang (supposed NOT to accompany @target).

[1]:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3288293&group_id=106328&atid=644065

3. create a ticket for renaming (b) to e.g. objectLang (as its
description suggests)?

Thanks,

  P.