I need some time to put it in words (at least coherent ones), but I have a bad feeling about this. Case to ponder: how to express that content for a model should be pulled from some other location matching id of the processed element, so effectively how to do joins. <TEI> ... <persName ref="PId123"> ... </TEI> intended model <model behaviour="note"> <param name="content">doc("persons.xml")//person[@xml:id=***@ref***]</param> </model> except that I cannot say @ref here, because I mean @ref of persName being processed. Is there any XPath magic to say it? Or would we need some other mechanism to accommodate such jobs? Puzzled, Magdalena On 22 January 2016 at 12:33, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
The <param> element currently declares its content to be "macro.xpath" -- i.e. it can contain only an XPath.
It would be a lot easier to enforce this constraint if the content were supplied as an attribute, e.g. "value"
so, eg, instead of
<param name="foo">@bar</param> <param name="default">corr</param> <param name="lang">ancestor::*/@xml:lang</param> <param name="place">'foot'</param>
I suggest
<param name="foo" value="@bar"/> <param name="default" value="corr"/> <param name="lang" value="ancestor::*/@xml:lang"/> <param name="place" value="'foot'"/>
Anyone got strong feelings against this change? The @place example looks a bit dodgy, but otherwise it seems a fairly benign enhancement. -- tei-council mailing list tei-council@lists.tei-c.org http://lists.lists.tei-c.org/mailman/listinfo/tei-council
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