[tei-council] Things needing translation

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 30 Dec 2013, at 23:46, Syd Bauman <s.bauman at NEU.EDU> wrote:

> 4 out of 5 isn't bad. But as I look at the Guidelines today, there
> are 425 elements that have both a child <exemplum> with versionDate=
> and a child <exemplum> without versionDate=. Since <exemplum>s aren't
> necessarily grouped by the example contained, some of these might be
> OK. But I really doubt all 425 are -- I bet most are instances where
> we should be putting @versionDate on the <exemplum>s that don't have
> it. 

<exemplum>s are  a bit harder to deal with than gloss/desc/remarks, for
two reasons:

   a) the exempla in different languages are not translations; so because
en English example has changed, it does not follow that the Chinese
one should.

   b)  the example are not identified/unique. So we cannot simply run the script
which looks to see when an example has has changed at some point in time.

I agree that <exemplum> having @versionDate is a good thing, 
but I don’t think its part of the same I18N issue.
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Sebastian Rahtz
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University of Oxford IT Services
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