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

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Sun Jan 6 14:11:11 EST 2013


On 06/01/13 18:57, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 6 Jan 2013, at 17:52, Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman at Brown.edu>
>   wrote:
>
>> The advantage of data.word is that a value could start with a digit
>> (like "1674"). The advantage of data.enumerated is that means the TEI
>> is saying (appropriately, I think) "you should document your set of
>> values in your ODD".
>
> really? surely the ODD is designed for the project level, while this information
> is for the document level. In my ODD I set up documented lists of (eg)
> the values I use for @type, but do I really embed in my schema the fact that
> for this one of document (of many in my set) I want to use "1661" and "1671" as
> values for lb/@ed? those seem like things I'll list in my header, not my schema.

Surely both are plausible ?

However, I agree that enumerations are not *necessarily* provided in 
your ODD. They might well be documented in a corpus or text header. But 
that really is a project-specific choice.



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