[tei-council] standoff

[Sebastian Rahtz]

> On 27 Nov 2014, at 17:49, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
> 
> On 14-11-27 09:35 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>> On 27/11/14 16:48, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> IIRC, we did briefly discuss this at Council this month, when talking
>>> about another ticket, and I don't remember any opposition to it at all.
>>> The only thing I recall our arguing about in the past was the name. I
>>> wish we didn't spend so much time worrying about tag names.
>> 
>> Are we confusing two tickets here? There is the standoff element
>> one and the external metadata one. They are, presumably, quite
>> different?
> 
> They're definitely different -- <xenoData> (still like that) as a child 
> of <teiHeader> and <ldb> (too mysterious, I think) as a child of <TEI> 
> -- but I think we discussed the latter briefly while talking about the 
> former.

the name <xenoData> makes my skin crawl, but as I wasn’t at the meeting I will leave that alone :-}

But it seems fairly incredible that we’d introduce _two_ parallel new children of <TEI>
both of which contain standoff metadata. Can’t we have just one <metadata>, with sections for
<xenoDate> and for <annotation>?

I have a gut feeling that some of the bits of current <teiHeader> might move to the new
section. eg <profileDesc>

which may suggest that in fact we should look again about the new things being in the header.
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Sebastian Rahtz      
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