[tei-council] Dates and calendars

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-08-15 09:49 AM, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> 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.)

Done.

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Holmes
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