[tei-council] [tei:bugs] #617 <num> not a part of att.segLike (and thus of att.fragmentable)

[Martin Holmes]

Should we contact the submitter to see whether they have any good 
arguments that make nesting <w>, <phr> or <seg> inside <num> to solve 
the problem an inadequate solution?

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-05-22 05:37 AM, Peter Stadler wrote:
> Sounds reasonable.
> +1 for rejecting
>
> Am 22.05.2014 um 12:39 schrieb Fabio Ciotti <fabio.ciotti at UNIROMA2.IT>:
>
>> My opinion is to reject the request since:
>>
>> 1) the same happens for many phrase level elements with similar
>> semantic functions as <date> or <measure> etc. For simmetry we should
>> change them all
>> 2) <w> is (should) be used to carry morpho-syntactic features of its
>> content, whil <num> bears a semantic tract of its content, so they
>> have different markup semantic
>> 3) there is a fairly simple solution for both the issues, that is
>> nesting <w> or <phr> inside <num>
>> 4) in the worst case the issue can be faced with a local extension of
>> TEI scheme.
>>
>> Fabio
>>
>>
>> assigned_to: Fabio Ciotti
>> Comment:
>>
>> Assigning to Fabio Ciotti for triage, reporting to council, and implementation
>>
>> ________________________________
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>> [bugs:#617] <num> not a part of att.segLike (and thus of att.fragmentable)
>>
>> Status: open
>> Group: AMBER
>> Created: Tue Oct 29, 2013 09:39 PM UTC by Ville Marttila
>> Last Updated: Tue Oct 29, 2013 09:39 PM UTC
>> Owner: Fabio Ciotti
>>
>> Considering that the element <num> is parallel to the element <w> in
>> annotating a number, which can from a linguistic point of view be
>> considered a word-level unit, it should also belong to the att.segLike
>> class. This would not only provide it with the @function attribute for
>> annotating its syntactic function but would also include it in the
>> att.fragmentable class, allowing the annotation of incomplete numbers
>> (esp. Roman numerals which are often quite long and can easily be
>> partially lost).
>>
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