[tei-council] http://purl.org/tei/fr/3519866 (@rend datatype)

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-07-05 10:17 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 5 Jul 2012, at 18:13, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>
>> And I'm not a big fan of the token|free|css choice in the header,
>> because are we *sure* that everyone is always going to want to treat
>> @rend the same way on *all* elements?
>
> goodness me. if they don't use @rend consistently across the document,
> we might as well shoot ourselves now! you think someone may be saying
>
>     <p rend="standout"><hi rend="font-style: italic">

For a little while in one of my projects, I had exactly this, as we 
transitioned a large document collection from token values to CSS in 
@rend. I handled it easily in the XSLT by checking for a colon in the 
value; if there was a colon there, then I assumed CSS, and if not, I 
assumed one or more of the earlier token values. It worked fine.

It would be a silly approach as an encoding strategy, though.

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)