
From lou@ermine.ox.ac.uk Mon Aug 20 12:57:20 2001
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:33:24 +0100 (BST)
From: Lou Burnard <lou@ermine.ox.ac.uk>
To: Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@eng.sun.com>
Cc: steven_derose@brown.edu
Subject: Re: Summer reading report: Chapter 5

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Gregory Murphy wrote:
|
|Here are nits I picked from Chapter 5 of the TEI P4.

Congratulations on being first out of the box! and many thanks


|
|I noticed one general discrepancy between text and DTD: the DTD
|available from the P4 area, dated May 2001, uses all lower-case names, e.g.
|<editionstmt> and <publicationstmt>, whereas the Guidelines use mixed case,
|e.g. <editionStmt> and <publicationStmt>. 

This is most peculiar and if true would mean that the P4X dtds have
never been legal, and would never have validated. Could you tell me
what you mean by "the DTD available from the P4 area"? I have checked
the following, all of which have the right camelCase usage

http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DTD  (this is the current XML version, 
                                       generated May 2001)

http://www.tei-c.org/P4beta/DTD     (these are both  the May 1999 beta release
http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/DTD

I also checked the zip file at
http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DTD/0601.zip. I cant find a copy of the CDs
we gave out in New York (none left); but I checked the most recent
version of our TEI CD, and that seems to be OK.

So I'm baffled. Please elucidate! 

|
|5.2.4 In the first example, the end tag for <p> is omitted:
|
|  <publicationStmt>
|        <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
|        <pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace> <date>1989</date>
|        <idno type='ISBN'>0-19-254705-4</idno>
|        <availability><p>Copyright 1989, Oxford University Press
|        </availability></publicationStmt>

Ha! Well spotted! This is one of the things that Sebastian's
auto-tidier missed. He'll be well peeved.

Thanks: now fixed.

|
|In the third example, the end tag for <idno> is omitted:
|
|  <publicationStmt>
|       <publisher>Sigma Press</publisher>
|       <date>1991</date>
|       <address>
|          <addrLine>21 High Street,</addrLine> 
|          <addrLine>Wilmslow,</addrLine>  
|          <addrLine>Cheshire M24 3DF</addrLine> 
|       </address>
|       <distributor>Oxford Text Archive</distributor>
|       <idno type='ota'>1256
|       <availability><p>Available with prior consent of depositor for
|          purposes of academic research and teaching only.
|  </publicationStmt>

Ditto.


|
|
|5.2.9 In the second example, two missing end tags for <p>:
|
|  <recording type='video'>
|    <p>U-matic recording made by college audio-visual
|       department staff,available as PAL-standard VHS
|       transfer or sound-only casssette
|    </recording>
|    <recording type='audio' dur="30 mins">
|    <respStmt>
|       <resp>Location recording by</resp>
|       <name>Sound Services Ltd.</name>
|    </respStmt>
|    <equipment>
|       <p>Multiple close microphones mixed down to stereo Digital
|       Audio Tape, standard play, 44.1 KHz sampling frequency
|    </equipment>
|    <date>12 Jan 1987</date>
|  </recording>

Ditto

|
|
|5.3.3 Should the first example read
|
|   <quotation marks="all" form="std">
|     <p>All opening quotation marks converted to &amp;odq; all closing
|        quotation marks converted to &amp;cdq;.</p>
|   </quotation>
|
|  instead of
|
|   <quotation marks="all" form="std">
|     <p>All opening quotation marks converted to &odq; all closing
|        quotation marks converted to &cdq;.</p>
|   </quotation>
|
|  ?
|

Nasty example. Have paraphrased it.


|
|5.3.4 Should the first example read 
|
|   <tagUsage gi="p" render="style1"/>
|   <tagUsage gi="hi" render="style2"/>
|
|  instead of
|
|   <tagUsage gi="p" render="style1"> </tagUsage>
|   <tagUsage gi="hi" render="style2"/>
|
|  ?


Hmmmm. We should certainly be consistent. <tagUsage> is not an empty
element, so I'm inclined to prefer the first usage. On the other hand,
the second usage looks neater...

|
|
|5.4.2 End tags for <language> omitted from first (but not the second or
|the third) examples:
|
|  <langUsage>
|    <language id='GMH' wsd='mhd'>Middle High German
|    <language id='DEU' wsd='nhd'>Modern standard German
|  </langUsage>
|

See above!



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