c.f.

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/AB.html#index-front.1_div.4_div.1_div.2_div.1

(Which btw is a horrible, presumably auto-created at some point, ID that we should change sometime.)

Basically:

"In TEI usage, a group is distinguished from a list in that the former associates several objects which act as a single entity, while the latter does not. For example, a linkGrp combines several link elements which have certain properties in common, whereas a listBibl simply lists a number of otherwise unrelated bibl elements."

And I've got a memory of it in some TCW explaining naming of elements somewhere else but couldn't find that in a quick search.

-James

Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk

School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University

Do we have a written policy on when a grouping elment for Xs is named
<listX> vs <XGrp>? I think the policy should be that we use <listX>
when the order of Xs does, or may, have significance; we use <XGrp>
when the order of Xs does not, or should not, have significance.

In alphabetic order by the part of the GI that says what is being
contained, we have:
* altGrp
* listApp
* listBibl
* listChange
* listEvent
* listForest
* gramGrp
* interpGrp
* joinGrp
* linkGrp
* locusGrp
* measureGrp
* modelGrp
* listNym
* listOrg
* listPerson
* personGrp /* not really the same sort of animal */
* listPlace
* listPrefixDef
* rdgGrp
* listRef
* listRelation
* spanGrp
* specGrp
* specGrpRef
* spGrp
* surfaceGrp
* listTranspose
* listWit
While I think several of these arguably do not fall into my
definitions above, I still think it may be a useful guideline for
future names. Unless, of course, we already have a guideline for
future names. :-)
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