[tei-council] DCR alignment inside ODD

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 26 Apr 2012, at 17:12, Piotr Bański wrote:

> @uri, but yes, except that maintaining the use of @uri (rather than
> softly deprecating it) creates two devices for DCR alignment in the same
> element; I think the introduction of att.datcat makes @uri spurious here
> -- @uri seems to have the status of a historical placeholder for
> att.datcat.

you might say that, but I believe there are some few renegades who have spotted life
outside ISO 12620:2009  :-}


> I'm not sure how to handle this in DTDs. default dcr:datcat pointing at
> a definition of the POS, sure. But I can't see how to use this approach
> for the values (noun, verb, etc.), maybe I'm missing something again.


no, you can't do that in DTDs.

if you want to say 

  * when  the TEI uses <foo>, thats the same data category as ISO <bar>
  * when the content of <foo> is "noun", thats also a concept defined in ISO, as "noun"
  * <foo> can _only_ contain "noun" or "verb", and they are ISO xxxxx

then it seems to me that you have <equiv> and dcr:datcat filling all your needs right now.

saying
  <elementSpec dcr:datcat="iso:xxx" ident="foo">
seems to be to be saying that the idea of an "element" is  ISO category "xxx",
which is not the same thing at all, of course.

saying
 
  <equiv dcr:datcat="iso:yyy"> 

similarly says that our notion of "equiv" is ISO's yyy, which is also not what you mean

IMHO.

Sebastian