[tei-council] Attributes without examples

[Lou Burnard]

Ah well, that's a different question. By all means, let's invite 
contributions from anyone who's interested and motivated to provide 
them! But let's not impose the unrealistic requirement that they should 
be pre-existing usages of the attributes concerned.


On 13/08/12 15:41, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> Finding an example from a real text is the hard part.  Why not "pick the
> low-hanging fruit" -- and simultaneously engage the community! -- by
> giving people the opportunity to contribute examples to the TEI Guidelines?
>
> For any attributes left, we can go digging through the library stacks.
>
> On 8/13/2012 10:32 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> There's an obvious boot-strapping problem here! If we'd confined
>> ourselves to pre-existing examples of TEI-encoded texts during the
>> writing of the Guidelines we wouldn't have got very far. I wonder
>> whether Kevin is interpreting "real examples" rather too literally --
>> for me it means that the text being encoded is a real one, not that the
>> encoding already exists. So I think it's perfectly OK (as I just did in
>> fact for the Lite tutorial) to grab an example from a favourite real
>> text and encode it so as to demonstrate the feature concerned.
>>
>> So Kevin, I happen to know from experience that just a few minutes walk
>> from your office you have a pretty interesting collecion of books!
>>
>>