A more generic system would certainly be nicer but the question remains... how? Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab®|PRO -------- Original message -------- From: Syd Bauman Date:2016/02/05 16:17 (GMT+00:00) To: tei-council@lists.tei-c.org Cc: teisimple@maillist.ox.ac.uk Subject: Re: [tei-council] proc mod queries 2 Lou -- Has this been dealt with, yet? My instinct is that we need a general purpose system, because I might want to express equivalences in DocBook or NLM, not HTML. As for <outputRendition>, I guess the same is true. Why shouldn't I be allowed to express my output in DSSSL or FO or Waterloo Script? But two thoughts on outputRendition: * The @versionDate on most everything is set to May of 2009. * I'm thinking that maybe "first-letter" should be "first-character". After all, it might be a numeral, a dingbat, or an arithmetic symbol instead.
Oh, and here's another one.
The <equiv> element is used quite a lot in the current document, apparently to provide an HTML element which behaves more or less the same as some model behaviour. For example
<valItem ident="link"> <desc versionDate="2015-08-21" xml:lang="en">create hyperlink</desc> <equiv name="a"/> <paramList> <paramSpec ident="content"/> <paramSpec ident="uri"> <desc versionDate="2015-08-21" xml:lang="en">link url</desc> </paramSpec> </paramList> </valItem>
(Note incidentally, that I took it on myself to give the second parameter a different name from the behaviour to which it is attached -- both were formerly known as "link", which I found just too confusing)
My question is: how on earth do I know that "a" is the name of an HTML element rather than (say) the indefinite article ? It certainly isn't defined as such in the TEI spec for <equiv> which says this attribute names "the underlying concept of which the parent is a representation" It makes me feel rather uncomfortable to be special casing this usage without explanation of any sort.
In much the same way, although the draft doesn't say it explicitly anywhere, am I right in thinking that the value of <outputRendition> is *by definition* a piece of CSS, and can never be anything else? -- tei-council mailing list tei-council@lists.tei-c.org http://lists.lists.tei-c.org/mailman/listinfo/tei-council
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