[tei-council] [tei:feature-requests] #450 `<stamp>` should contain `<desc>`, not the other way round

[Lou Burnard]

I agree that it might be nice to have a new kind of `<stamp>` which, 
like `<figure>` had element-only content.  Bit neither you nor Gabby is 
addressing the point that this would break all current uses of 
`<stamp>`. My proposal is a step in the right direction,  in that it at 
least resolves the current ambiguity, without such a blatant flouting of 
the principle that we should not break existing documents. I would like 
to take that step for the next release, leaving the issue open if you 
wish for further discussion.





On 26/05/13 14:23, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>
> Gabby's message about was in response to what Lou suggested (which I 
> have quoted below). I agree with Gabby that it would be nice to fix 
> this all at once if we could.
>
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> *[feature-requests:#450] 
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/450/> |<stamp>| should 
> contain |<desc>|, not the other way round*
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> *Status:* open
> *Created:* Thu Apr 18, 2013 06:41 PM UTC by Lou Burnard
> *Last Updated:* Sun May 26, 2013 01:21 PM UTC
> *Owner:* nobody
>
> There are two examples for the |<stamp>| element: one shows it 
> containing the text that has been stamped, the other shows it 
> containing a description of the stamp. It would be good to be able to 
> distinguish the two cases, since both are equally likely when 
> recording stamps in general. If this element is used for postmarks or 
> postage stamps, for example, you might well want to distinguish text 
> actually forming part of the postmark or appearing on the postage 
> stamp from a general description of the stamp. However, the content 
> model says that its content is just macro.phraseSeq, which doesn't 
> include |<desc>|, though it does include all sorts of other largely 
> irrelevant nonsense. I propose changing it to 
> (model.phrase|model.gLike|model.descLike)*
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