[tei-council] note in sourceDesc

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 11 Mar 2014, at 17:38, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> As this is a real requirement on my part I'd like to press ahead and 
> make at least that modification before the next release. Does anyone 
> have any objection to my doing so?

The reasoning there is fairly iffy.  You’d be the first one normally
to hold up your hand and say we shouldn’t make individual changes like this
to suit one project, but should look at the bigger picture. Which in this case
is the age-old issue of <p> in the header.

I think you’re conflating two distinct things:

  a) possibly <note> is a good addition to all the <p>-like contexts in the header.
not that convinced myself, but it’s a case to make

  b) your problem today that you want to constrain <p> very severely but don’t
want that to affect the header.  the solution you propose (allowing
note in sourceDesc) is uncharacteristically limited and non-scaleable, imho.

then there is the possible red herring of

  c) the issue of how one says “there is no source” in the mandatory <sourceDesc>.
I refer the court to the Rahtz/Driscoll anti-matter proposal of last autumn…..
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Sebastian Rahtz      
Director (Research) of Academic IT
University of Oxford IT Services
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Não posso querer ser nada.
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