[tei-council] idno -> ptr

Thu Jun 20 10:11:33 EDT 2013

I went to process my assigned task from the minutes of our April
meeting, "remove our own dis-recommended use of <idno> in the
bibliography". Supposedly this is because we "agreed that these fixes
need to be made. <idno> wrapped in <analytic>, <monogr> <series>,
will change @type="url" to <ref>".

However, we have no <idno type='url'> wrapped in <analytic>,
<monogr>, or <series> in the Guidelines. (Neither in main TEI
namespace nor in Examples namespace.) We do have dozens of 'em
directly inside <biblStruct>, and I think the same logic applies:
those that are pointing to a web page should be <ptr> (or <ref>, but
see [1]), not <idno>.

So I went through the list of 'em. The vast majority obviously point
to a page (e.g., end in ".html"), so I consider those candidates for
conversion. I took a look at the 37 of them that were not obvious at
a glance, running `wget` on each of them. 30 fetched a file (not
surprisingly, most of which were named "index.html" :-).

However, 7 did not resolve to a file, but rather gave an error of
some sort (see [2] for details). What I've done for now is turn *all*
of the <idno type='url'> into <ptr>, adding a subtype="winita" (work
is needed in this area) attribute to the 7 that do not resolve
properly. I'm hoping someone will volunteer to track 'em down and fix
'em before next week.

NOTE: Since I cannot build P5 here (I'm at the ambulance station
today and only have my Mac, not a Debian-based system), I probably
won't check this in until after I can check it later tonight.

Notes
-----
[1] Actually, <ptr> will do just as well as <ref>, and the only one
    example I found that is already a <ptr> or <ref> is a <ptr>.
    Since
    I have no content to dream up to put inside <ref>, I'll use <ptr>
    for now. If & when we dream up content we can use <ref>.

[2] Output form `wget` on each of the 7 problematic URLs follows.

    ---------http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS21/:
    --2013-06-20 09:30:44--  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS21/
    Resolving www.w3.org... 128.30.52.37
    Connecting to www.w3.org|128.30.52.37|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
    2013-06-20 09:30:45 ERROR 404: Not Found.

    ---------http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=963653:
    --2013-06-20 09:30:45--
    --http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=963653
    Resolving portal.acm.org... 64.238.147.56, 64.238.147.53
    Connecting to portal.acm.org|64.238.147.56|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
    Location: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=963653 [following]
    --2013-06-20 09:30:45--  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=963653
    Resolving dl.acm.org... 64.238.147.56, 64.238.147.53
    Connecting to dl.acm.org|64.238.147.56|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
    2013-06-20 09:30:45 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

    ---------http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/:
    --2013-06-20 09:30:45--
    --http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/
    Resolving ota.ahds.ac.uk... 163.1.0.23
    Connecting to ota.ahds.ac.uk|163.1.0.23|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
    2013-06-20 09:30:46 ERROR 404: Not Found.

    ---------http://hdl.handle.net/1956/1875:
    --2013-06-20 09:30:46--  http://hdl.handle.net/1956/1875
    Resolving hdl.handle.net... 38.100.138.166, 38.100.138.165,
    --132.151.9.184, ...
    Connecting to hdl.handle.net|38.100.138.166|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 303 See Other
    Location: http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/1875 [following]
    --2013-06-20 09:30:46--  http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/1875
    Resolving bora.uib.no... 129.177.6.72, 2001:700:200:6::72
    Connecting to bora.uib.no|129.177.6.72|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
    Location: https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/1875 [following]
    --2013-06-20 09:30:47--  https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/1875
    Connecting to bora.uib.no|129.177.6.72|:443... connected.
    ERROR: cannot verify bora.uib.no's certificate, issued by
    --`/C=NL/O=TERENA/CN=TERENA SSL CA':
      Self-signed certificate encountered.
    To connect to bora.uib.no insecurely, use
    --`--no-check-certificate'.
    ---------http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=827192:
    --2013-06-20 09:30:47--
    --http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=827192
    Resolving portal.acm.org... 64.238.147.56, 64.238.147.53
    Connecting to portal.acm.org|64.238.147.56|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
    Location: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=827192 [following]
    --2013-06-20 09:30:47--  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=827192
    Resolving dl.acm.org... 64.238.147.56, 64.238.147.53
    Connecting to dl.acm.org|64.238.147.56|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
    2013-06-20 09:30:47 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

    ---------http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_AE038:
    --2013-06-20 09:30:47--  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_AE038
    Resolving edis.ifas.ufl.edu... 128.227.242.126
    Connecting to edis.ifas.ufl.edu|128.227.242.126|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
    Location: /body_ae038 [following]
    --2013-06-20 09:30:48--  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/body_ae038
    Reusing existing connection to edis.ifas.ufl.edu:80.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
    2013-06-20 09:30:48 ERROR 404: Not Found.

    ---------http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk:8000/AnaServer?teidoc+0+start.anv:
    --2013-06-20 09:30:48--
    --http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk:8000/AnaServer?teidoc+0+start.anv
    Resolving www.cta.dmu.ac.uk... 146.227.164.96
    Connecting to www.cta.dmu.ac.uk|146.227.164.96|:8000... failed:
    --Connection refused.

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