[tei-council] <app> attributes

[Martin Holmes]

+1 from me on both points.

On 13-06-18 07:55 AM, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> In enacting ticket <https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/366/> (adding
> examples of app without both lem and rdg, with example of note and
> pointing back to an element in the text being commented on), James and I
> have come to the opinion that the description of the @from/@to
> attributes is overly restrictive.
>
> I have used the @from attribute, as discussed in Providence, not to mark
> the beginning of a span using the double-end point method, but to
> indicate an element pointed to by means of a url rather than the "magic
> token" that is @loc. So far so uncontroversial.
>
> A note on @from (in ref-app) reads: "This attribute is only used when
> the double-end point method of apparatus markup is used."
>
> I propose to change this to: "This attribute should be used when the
> double-end point method of apparatus markup, or the location-referenced
> method with a URL rather than canonical reference, are used."
>
> The @to attribute is slightly different: that is still constrained to
> double-end point method. However, the note reads: "This attribute is
> only used when the double-end point method of apparatus markup is used,
> with the encoded apparatus held in a separate file rather than being
> embedded in-line in the base-text file."
>
> I think that last part is overly restrictive. Shouldn't it say something
> like: "This attribute is only used when the double-end point method of
> apparatus markup is used, with the encoded apparatus held in a separate
> file or division of the edition rather than being embedded in-line in
> the base-text."
>
> (Location-referenced apparatus can also include the apparatus in the
> same file, just not in the transcribed text section, neh?)
>
> If the latter is controversial, I'll just go ahead and make the former
> change for the time being. Stop me now, before I kill again....
>
>

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