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

Fri Dec 20 14:02:26 EST 2013

Hi Fabio,

On 13-12-20 10:49 AM, Fabio Ciotti wrote:
> 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.

You missed the lengthy discussion we had of this in Oxford. The 
consensus is that @corresp is (has become) a general-purpose linking 
attribute, for the reasons I outlined in my response to Kevin. If you 
don't like that, then we need to either:

a) create a general-purpose global linking attribute,

b) make several other attributes (such as @resp and @target) more widely 
available, preferably global, or

c) watch helplessly as the community continues to use @corresp for 
everything.

But your point below and Sebastian's point about this are good ones. 
I'll find another example.

Cheers,
Martin

> 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

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