[tei-council] @calendar and @datingMethod

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Wed May 21 08:49:41 EDT 2014


On 14-05-21 02:29 AM, James Cummings wrote:
> On 20/05/14 21:58, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Great. We should probably do this as part of the Test build, really. But
>> it's conceivable that we might use <att> or <gi> to talk about things
>> from other namespaces.
>
> Should this take account of the @scheme attribute then? On that
> note I've wondered a couple times whether @scheme should either
> not be data.enumerated or be replaced or complemented with @ns
> for an actual namespace.  Though I suppose you might want both.
> You might want to be able to say:
>
> ===
> <p><gi ns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
> scheme="TEI">persName</gi> allows many elements inside it but in
> <term>TEI-Simple</term> <gi ns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
> scheme="TEI-Simple">persName</gi> has been changed to only allow
> forenames and surnames.</p>
> ===
>
> (Ok, a fictitious example but both these different 'schemes'
> would be in the same namespace.)

I like the look of this. We'd want to have a default that says that an 
<gi> without @scheme or @ns is presumed to be TEI, though, otherwise 
it'll be tedious to work on the Guidelines.

Then there's attributes and their default no-namespace namespace...

Cheers,
Martin

>
> -James
>
>


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