[tei-council] Attributes without examples

Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
Sat Dec 29 12:58:51 EST 2012


A procedural question about this task ...

Is it okay to copy an example from a chapter of the Guidelines into the 
appropriate elementSpec or classSpec?  That is, we're not concerned 
about such duplicated examples falling out of sync in case we adjust one 
and not another?

--Kevin

On 12/21/12 11:27 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> Excellent.  I've added back in "assigned to" initials from the old chart
> for a few claimed by by Brett and Paul.
>
> On 12/21/2012 11:11 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> I've posted a new list:
>>
>> <http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/AttsWithoutEgs>
>>
>> It's a bit shorter (only 164 attributes). I'll do a bit more work on it
>> -- my code wasn't dealing with @xml:* attributes properly, and I also
>> want to turn the "Defined in" field into a link to the appropriate page
>> on the latest Jenkins build.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 12-12-20 08:13 PM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>> To bring back an old thread, I've looked at this wiki page that Martin
>>> created and seen that it includes attributes that have a defined list of
>>> legal values.  It seems to me that there's not much point in giving
>>> examples of these since the list of values generally explains what each
>>> means.
>>>
>>> Martin, do you still have the code you used to create the list?  Could
>>> you possibly exclude those that have a list of legal values?  If you are
>>> able to create this list, we are still, unfortunately, stuck merging the
>>> existing page, where people have signed up to add certain examples.
>>>
>>> --Kevin
>>>
>>> On 8/12/12 8:22 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>> The last time I took a look through these, I seem to remember coming to
>>>> the conclusion that one situation in particular is most urgent: where
>>>> attributes are declared in an attribute class, and none of the elements
>>>> which are members of that attribute class have examples which
>>>> illustrate
>>>> the use of that attribute.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how many of these there are -- I was halfway through some
>>>> XSLT to find out, but I got distracted. I'll try to finish that.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> On 12-08-12 12:16 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the things that Kevin reminded me of recently was that we
>>>>> still have lots of attributes without examples:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/AttsWithoutEgs
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm as guilty as the others who have not signed up to provide
>>>>> some, but will try to do so in the next week or two.  Any other
>>>>> suggestions? Can everyone sign up to provide some examples?
>>>>>
>>>>> -James
>>>>>
>>


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