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

Fri Dec 20 13:58:55 EST 2013

On 13-12-20 10:34 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> <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 am a bit baffled by this. This says to me that the <note> is at the end, but
> is referenced from where #a001 appears, using @target as prescribed. What
> does the @corresp say? just repeating the same information with a different
> notation? why would anyone do that?

They would do it if they were processing with something less powerful 
than XSLT or XQuery, where discovering reciprocal relationships was 
difficult.

But point taken -- I'll look for something else.

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)