[tei-council] proof of concept of i18n work

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 17 Nov 2013, at 19:08, Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info> wrote:
> a) Add @versionDate to each <valDesc> (in addition to <desc>).  That way 
> we'll be consistent in using @versionDate on all parts of our specs.
> 
> b) Merge <valDesc>s into <desc> and just do away with them.
> 
> My preference is (a).

the reason I suggested throwing them away is things like
	<valDesc>any string of characters</valDesc>
or
	<valDesc>a name of module</valDesc>
which just annoy me. There is certainly useful material
in there, but it needs a trawl.

but yes, adding in the @versionDate for the English
(and indeed for the French too, which are undated) would
be useful.

Running Utilities/addDateToGlossDesc.sh in the P5 source tree does the
job (though for sanities sake on might run it only on files which actually have
valDesc; that script takes a parameter ($1) which is the list of XML files
to operate on). 

Note that the script generates a series of shell commands,
so usage (for just one file) looks like this:

	sh Utilities/addDateToGlossDesc.sh classCode.xml | sh

Someone may like to amuse themselves by running this for real,
for English and French, and checking the results do what is expected.
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