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

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Sat Jun 16 14:04:24 EDT 2012


On 12-06-16 02:59 AM, James Cummings wrote:
> On 16/06/12 07:42, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> btw, why do we want<listApp>    and not<appGrp>? I can never
>>> remember
>> the difference
>>
>> I think<appGrp>   would imply that there's no meaningful order,
>> but there usually is with<app>s; they go in document order.
>
> Do they? I don't think that is necessarily the case, nor
> something we should require for anything that is recorded in a
> stand-off/out-of-line manner.  (Could you imagine if I told you
> that your<link>  elements had to be in a particular order inside
> <linkGrp>?

That was my point, surely -- <*Grp> doesn't imply any order, but <list*> 
either does, or may.

Cheers,
Martin

> -James

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Martin Holmes
mholmes at uvic.ca
UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre


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