[tei-council] Standard form for elementSpec/desc

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 12/27/12 5:56 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 26/12/12 21:36, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Proofing my birthday chapter (#8), I've come across something which I
>> recall bothering me in the past. Most element descriptions take the form
>> of verb phrases:
>>
>> [<scriptStmt>] contains a citation giving details of the script used for
>> a spoken text.
>>
>> Others are in the form of noun phrases:
>>
>> [<recording>] details of an audio or video recording event
>> used as the source of a spoken text, either directly or from
>> a public broadcast.
>
> The second example is erroneous. There used to be a house style rule
> which explicitly said that the description should follow the pattern of
> the first one, i.e. should contain a verb phrase, but I don't recall
> when or why it disappeared.  For the reasons Martin points out, it
> should definitely come back.

The rule is at http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/ED/edw11.txt , which is linked 
from http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw24.xml as one of 
the mostly superseded documents.  I've just added this rule to tcw24.