[tei-council] data.code and data.word

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Sat Apr 6 16:26:54 EDT 2013


On 06/04/13 15:39, Syd Bauman wrote:
> I see that I'm way too late, data.code has already been removed. And
> since it never lived up to its aspirations, that may not be such a
> bad thing. But I still think that a mechanism for expressing a
> controlled vocabulary in an individual file's TEI header (rather than
> in its ODD like data.enumerated) is a good idea.

Yes, that train has now left the station. As to controlled vocab in the 
header, it all depends what the purpose of the vocab is. If it's for 
something that legitimately be regarded as a descriptive <taxonomy>, 
then the mechanism is already there.




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