[tei-council] Dates and calendars

[Gabriel Bodard]

On 2012-08-15 16:53, Martin Holmes wrote:
> i.e. pointing to a <calendarDesc> rather than a <calendar>, it was
> pointing to some kind of textual description of how the dating method
> actually worked, rather than what calendar it was. Obviously not, since
> <calendarDesc> can contain only <calendar> elements.
>
> (But shouldn't that definition be amended to "...pointer to a <calendar>
> element..."? A <calendarDesc> is likely to contain multiple <calendar>
> elements, and you'd presumably want to point to only one of them.)

Agreed. Whoever wrote <calendarDesc> there was not thinking clearly. 
You'd think this was a half-assed element that someone only invented a 
few months ago, or something. ;-)

No seriously, fix it. (Or I can.)

G

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