[tei-council] Location of <app>s for external apparatus

[James Cummings]

On 15/06/12 23:31, Lou Burnard wrote:
> When and why did we decide this thingie should not be in the Header?
> Makes perfectly good sense to me -- it's metadata isn't it? Why not put
> it inside say encodingDesc/editorialDecl/ ?

<app>s are not metadata, they contain textual transcription.

> (BTW, the idea for this container is not new : it was mooted back in
> SGML days when we thought it might be amusing to call it
> "LinkedDataBlock" or ldb for short.)

Good initialism, I can see why you liked it.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford