[tei-council] Attributes without examples

[James Cummings]

How about a compromise, that Council try to do as many of these 
as possible before our face2face and afterwards we ask the 
community? Those without lots of tickets assigned to them on 
SourceForge should feel free to take extra attributes.

-James

On 13/08/12 15:49, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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!
>>>
>>>
>


-- 
Dr James Cummings, researchsupport at it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support, IT Services, University of Oxford