[tei-council] Bug 506: examples for @corresp

Fri Dec 20 12:35:48 EST 2013

I think we'd want to add some explanation before or after the example 
explaining that the point of this example is not just to show linking 
from the document to an endnote but that the linking is in two directions.

Still, if I were reading the Guidelines, this example would raise a 
question for me: why not use @target on <persName> as well?  I suspect 
the answer is that @target is not allowed on <persName>, but then this 
makes me wonder why the TEI doesn't add it -- or at least we wouldn't 
acknowledge that someone might want to do so.

To put it more bluntly, the example strikes me as attribute abuse 
designed to avoid having to create a customization, and I don't think 
we'd want to promote such practice.

--Kevin

On 12/20/2013 12:24 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/506/>
>
> In Oxford I was tasked with clarifying the use of @corresp. The
> Council's view was that although a strict interpretation of @corresp
> (that it "should only be used where the target and source are
> interchangeable") is possible, based especially on its history in
> previous versions of the Guidelines, the actual definition in P5 is much
> looser, and general practice in the TEI community has been to use
> @corresp as a general-purpose linking tool.
>
> The task is to come up with a second example for the Spec file which
> shows a looser usage of @corresp. I'm supposed to run this by Council
> before adding it to the Guidelines.
>
> I'm proposing something based on advice from the Syd and Julia show here:
>
> <http://www.wwp.brown.edu/research/publications/guide/html/referencing_notes.html>
>
> where @corresp is proposed as a way of linking an element in the text to
> a footnote or endnote. The example there is in P4, but updated and
> slightly simplified it would be something like this:
>
> <body>
> <!-- ... -->
>     <p>It remained to the glorious
>       <persName id="a001" corresp="#n001"">Cromwell</persName>
>       to tame this tiger...</p>
> <!-- ... -->
> </body>
>
> <!-- ... -->
>
> <back>
>     <note id="n001" target="#a001">
>       <p>
>         The famed<persName>Oliver
>         Cromwell</persName>, Lord Protector...
>       </p>
>     </note>
> </back>
>
> I think it's unambiguous here that the<persName>  is not interchangeable
> with the<note>, so this should satisfy the need for a looser example.
> Does anyone have any objections to this? Syd, is there a source for it,
> or was it made up?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>