[tei-council] some questions about non-textual components and media

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 18 Dec 2012, at 21:19, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:
> 
> I agree with GB here. We do already have  @mimetype after all and we 
> could make it mandatory on <media>
> 
> Or we could just add <audio> and <video> and have this argument all over 
> again when someone invents smellovision.


If we have <media>, we still have to maintain a closed list
for a @medium attribute (and therefore add smellovision).  
If anyone suggests that just @mimeType will do the job,  
I'll thcream and thcream 'till I'm thick
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