[tei-council] <app> attributes

[Lou Burnard]

Me too. This whole app-attachment thing is such a can of worms ...

On 18/06/13 16:57, Martin Holmes wrote:
> +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....
>>
>>