[tei-council] DCR alignment inside ODD

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 25 Apr 2012, at 21:40, Piotr Bański wrote:

> I'm working on the ISO DCR / ISOcat issues.[1] Got stuck at the point of
> adding the relevant pieces of text to the Guidelines.
> 
> The enlightened way to align grammatical categories with the values of
> the DCR is to put the appropriate references into the ODD, and I guess
> <equiv> is the ideal place for that.
> 
> I imagine, and please correct me if I am wrong, that for elements such
> as <pos>, this action may be trivial:
> 
> <elementSpec ident="pos" mode="change">
>   <equiv dcr:datcat="http://www.isocat.org/datcat/DC-1345"/>
> </elementSpec>

<equiv url="http://www.isocat.org/datcat/DC-1345"/> is the syntax, I think.

> The above makes it possible for us to happily realize that whenever we
> do e.g.
> 
> <gramGrp><pos>...</pos></gramGrp>
> 
> all the machines in the world may know that by <pos>, we mean
> http://www.isocat.org/datcat/DC-1345 .
well, if they read the ODD yes. I think there is a certain amount
of "simple matter of programming" involved here.

> 
> However, there is also the content of <pos> to be handled, and it is not
> so obvious to me how to represent this in the ODD. Intuitively, I'm
> thinking of
> 
> <elementSpec>
> ...
> <content>
> {list of values with their DCR references}
> </content>

a <elementSpec> can contain a <valList>, whose <valItem> children
can have <equiv> children

Does that help?

I suspect what you'd really like is to use a DTD which supplied default dcr:cat attributes to
instances of <pos>.

Sebastian