[tei-council] list/@type example

[Martin Holmes]

Hi all,

I'm doing the conversion of list/@type to @rend, and came across this 
rather odd example from the CO chapter (full quote below):

<list rend="runon" type="ordered">
       <label>(1)</label>
       <item>My first rough manuscript, without any
intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.</item>
       <label>(2)</label>
       <item>Not a sheet has been seen by any human
eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer:
the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.</item>
    </list></egXML>

(There are two of these.)

I contend that @type="ordered" is pointless here, because the numbering 
is supplied in any case by the <label>, so I propose to remove it. All 
who disagree please say nay loudly and soon; silence = assent.

Full quote:

<p>Each distinct item in the list should be encoded as a distinct
<gi>item</gi> element.  If the numbering or other identification for the
items in a list is unremarkable and may be reconstructed by any
processing program, no enumerator need be specified.  If however an
enumerator is retained in the encoded text, it may be supplied either by
using the <att>n</att> attribute on the <gi>item</gi> element, or by
using a <gi>label</gi> element.  The following examples are thus
equivalent:
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" source="#GibAut">I will 
add two facts, which have seldom occurred in
the composition of six, or even five quartos.
<list rend="runon" type="ordered">
       <label>(1)</label>
       <item>My first rough manuscript, without any
intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.</item>
       <label>(2)</label>
       <item>Not a sheet has been seen by any human
eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer:
the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.</item>
    </list></egXML>
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"  source="#GibAut">I will 
add two facts, which have seldom occurred in
the composition of six, or even five quartos.
<list rend="runon" type="ordered">
       <item n="1">My first rough manuscript, without any
intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.</item>
       <item n="2">Not a sheet has been seen by any human
eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer:
the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.</item>
    </list></egXML>

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