On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Syd Bauman
if it pointed to <sourceDesc> does that mean that the (non-TEI) metadata is about "the source of this TEI document" or about the <sourceDesc> itself?
That's why I wouldn't want to use @corresp, but a dedicated attribute that indicates that the scope of these xenoData has the same *scope* as the metadata in *this* header element. The basic idea is using the taxanomy built-in in the TEI header as scopes for the xenoData. Instead of having scope="source" have scope="#sourceDesc". If this won't fly, I would at least suggest to base out eventual valList for @scope on what's already modelled in the header.
The <fileDesc> doesn't point to what its metadata applies to, the <revisionDesc> doesn't point to what its metadata applies to. Why should <xenoData> be different? Well, because we're collapsing two different uses (<non-TEI-description-of-source> and <non-TEI-description-of-this-file>; or /TEI/teiHeader/fileDesc/sourceDesc/xenoData and /TEI/teiHeader/fileDesc/xenoData; or whatever) into one, and differentiating them with an attribute.
<xenoData> is not intended to be a dumping ground where you get to put your JPEG page images or JSON FOAF data or KML snippets. It's intended to be a place to put extracts of either the (non-TEI) metadata you used to generate your TEI header (but want to keep in its original form for some reason), or the (non-TEI) metadata you generated from your TEI header (and want to keep around for later processes, presumably).
Would it help to make @scope a reference to a specific TEI element in the header, à la @decls? A reference to sourceDesc or msDesc would unambiguously indicate what the xenoData are about (or is equivalent / alternative to). The downside is that there must be corresponding TEI metadata for this to work, but maybe that's not a bad thing?
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