[tei-council] Today's little puzzle

[James Cummings]

On 24/04/13 17:45, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2013, at 17:38, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>
> wrote:
>> This is intriguing, because it would mean we could also
>> start using TEI Pointers if we wanted to.
> go for it…..

If we wanted to... depends if we really need to.  I think it
would be beneficial to add other simple statistics. I don't know
maybe a short paragraph to the start of
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/REF-ELEMENTS.html
mentioning the number of elements?  I'm sure there are lots of
pedagogically useful ways we could use such processing instructions.

>> But where on earth is the right place to put the template
>> for the processing instruction? My heart sinks when I
>> venture into the stylesheet folders...
> nah, this would be ad hoc transform in Utilities, like
> p5subset.xsl. the later stylesheets would just see vanilla
> TEI.

Surely this is the problem we need to solve in helping to make 
the Stylesheets more accessible to a larger community of developers.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford