[tei-council] another High Noon proposal

[Lou Burnard]

On 11/01/13 14:42, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> the @subtype discussion seems different from the @url one.
>
> It seems simplest to to just change abbr and title to give them @subtype regardless, so i have just done that

That sounds sensible to me.

My recommendation, for the @url case, is

a) remove @url from the att.media class
b) define a new class att.resource (or something) which provides the 
@url attribute
c) make the elements which need @url specify their membership in the new 
class


Justification (apart from obviating the need for this bizarro 
now-you-see-it-now-you-dont technique)

- the attributes provided by the att.media class (minus URL) are all 
clearly related (they all have to do with the display/performance of 
some piece of media)
- any element which wants one of them will probably want the others too 
(@dur on <graphic> is a possible exception here)
- at some point in the future someone is going to say "what's the diff 
between @target and @url?" when that happens, it will be convenient to 
have @url in one clearly defined place
- at some point in the future someone is going to want to locate their 
media by some means which is neither inline nor a URL