[tei-council] another High Noon proposal

[Martin Holmes]

+1. att.resource seems a big vague, though I can't think of a better option.

On 13-01-11 09:19 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)