On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Majewski Stefan
the scope of the guidelines, this appears not entirely convincing, as one of the aims of using XML in the first place and using TEI in the second, is to create resources that are likely to be re-used.
There isn't one strategy that the TEI can recommend to make one's TEI more likely to be re-used, the guidelines can only warn about the problem and perhaps suggest a strategy. Using mnemonic ids instead of random ones even exacerbates this problem or re-usability: how many TEI files may end up with xml:id="div1-lg1"? Pre-pending a file's unique identifier greatly reduces the problem, but does not solve it. Anyway, it seems to me that generally the majority of the council would prefer to have at least some examples of ID usage on the guidelines. I would still refrain from calling them "recommendations" because of the variety of valid approaches that people are suggesting. But we can still offer two or three suggestions based on style and personal preference rather than actual effectiveness of a strategy, because it's too dependent on extra-textual contingencies.