[tei-council] [TEI-notify] SF.net SVN: tei:[11278] trunk/P5/Source/Guidelines/en/CO-CoreElements.xml

[Lou Burnard]

On 29/12/12 04:31, kshawkin at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Revision: 11278
>            http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/tei/?rev=11278&view=rev
> Author:   kshawkin
> Date:     2012-12-29 04:31:24 +0000 (Sat, 29 Dec 2012)
> Log Message:
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> fixed bug 3585939 plus some corrections related to incomplete implementation at revisions 7427, 7521, and 7964 of biblio document circulated on tei-council on 2012-04-24
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> Modified Paths:
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>      trunk/P5/Source/Guidelines/en/CO-CoreElements.xml
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This change seems to have introduced an inconsistency between what the 
prose of the Guidelines says and what the examples do. The prose says 
that it is not necessary to add a @level attribute to title when the 
level can be inferred from the parent element (<analytic> <monogr> etc) 
and gives an example which explicitly says that this attribute has been 
omitted, even though it is in fact present (the Merlin one).

A sentence has been added earlier saying that we recommend always 
supplying the @level attribute, which I don't recall our having 
discussed as such. It seems an unnecessary redundancy (sorry for the 
pleonasm but you know what I mean) to me, but in any case we ought to 
decide what the status of this "recommendation" is. If  @level is not 
mandatory on <title> (which it currently isn't) then we ought to explain 
in what circs it can be omitted, and how its absence is to be 
interpreted, (as we currently do more or less). And we ought to have 
some examples showing it being omitted, obv.