[tei-council] Misleadingly invalid example

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Thu Dec 27 01:06:24 EST 2012


The second example in this section of chapter 8:

<http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/TS.html#TSSASE>

is marked (correctly) as invalid, because it contains an element defined 
in an external namespace as an extension to TEI (<ext:paraphasia>). 
However, the example is introduced as a demonstration of how to use the 
TEI @type attribute on <seg>:

"Where segments of different kinds are to be distinguished within the 
same stretch of speech, the type attribute may be used, as in the 
following example:"

and the extension element is only explained after the example.

This is confusing. I'd like to re-draft this so that the initial 
example, demonstrating usage of @type, is valid, and the extension is 
introduced separately in a later, shorter example.

Yell now to prevent same.

Cheers,
Martin



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