[tei-council] att.sourced (<lb ed="1674">) contradiction

[Kevin Hawkins]

Looking through the history in Subversion, I see that att.sourced has 
had data.code since the beginning, when it was implemented as part of 
http://purl.org/TEI/FR/2216574 .  Perhaps that sheds some light on this.

On 1/4/13 4:32 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> see conversation about Pessoa on TEI-L.
>
> On the one hand:
>      @ed is described with "supplies an arbitrary identifier for the source edition in which
>        the associated feature (for example, a  page, column, or line
>        break) occurs at this point in the text" , with a gloss of
>       "A string of characters or sigil used conventionally to identify  the edition", and an example is <lb ed="1674"/>
>
> On the other hand:
>      The datatype of @ed is data.code, which is anyURI
>
> I put if to you all that this cannot stand. The prose describes something like @cRef,
> the datatype is like @wit.
>
> I suggest that the datatype is what we intended, and that the prose
> has not been brought into line.
>
> Anyone with me?
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