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

Fri Dec 20 13:49:06 EST 2013

In my view this example risks to enlarge the intended semantic of
@corresp too much, making it similar to @html:href: a general purpose
global linking element.
In this specific example I'd rather include <persName> inside a <ref>
element, for instance. In fact there is no correspondence relation
between a note reference and its body (in this example yes, but in
general I would not say that a note correspond to its reference). I'd
rather find an example of loose co-reference (not an anaphora,
although in a literary text it's not true that the two members of an
anaphora are interchangeable ) like a periphrasis, or a term linked to
a sort of glossary.

>>> 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