[tei-council] multiple representations of a graphic/media

[Lou Burnard]

On 28/04/14 17:22, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>> Secondly, if they could, what would it mean? Surely, it would mean that
>> the media was composed of several other media. Which is not the same at
>> all as these several other media are alternatives for each other, which
>> is the use case here as farv as I understand it.
> The idea is based on what HTML does with <object>, which works very well:
>
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#h-13.3>
>
> The user-agent is expected to use the first one in the tree that it's
> able to handle. At the bottom level is a text fallback that can be
> displayed when nothing else works; we already have <desc> for that.
>

This is fine for HTML, which is a language intended to tell you how to 
process a document, but is not necessarily a good model for TEI, which 
is a language intended to tell you how a document is organized. If you 
want <html:object>, use that.