[tei-council] Dates and calendars

[Lou Burnard]

I am an eejut.  Gabby is of course completely right. (I knew I 
disapproved of something, but I misremembered what)

I wonder though whether this specific example (where @calendar is 
supplied but there is no content) shouldn't therefore trigger a 
schematron error. It doesn't make a lot of sense to say "there's a date 
in this calendar here but I'm not telling you what it is" surely?



On 13/08/12 11:16, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> The @calendar attribute on datable elements is defined as "indicat[ing]
> the system or calendar to which the date represented by the _content of
> this element_ belongs"; in other words the markup:
>
> <date when="1424-02" calendar="#julian"/>
>
> Means: "A date in the Julian calendar which corresponds to February 1424
> CE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar." If you want to encode a
> normalized version of the Julian date, the only legal way to do so is to
> use @when-custom and @datingMethod.
>
> (This is exactly the use-case for which we introduced the whole
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.datable.custom.html
> class, of which Lou so disapproves. ;-) )
>
>