[freedict] Re: revisionDesc/change
- From: Piotr Bański <bansp@xxxxx>
- To: freedict@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 22:22:39 +0100
Hi Karl,
Thanks for the questions!
On 06/12/17 18:35, Karl Bartel wrote:
The description of revisionDesc/change in or HOWTO at
https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/wiki/FreeDict-HOWTO-%E2%80%93-Writing-Text-Encoding-Initiative-XML-Files#revisiondescchange
raises some questions for me:
1. Is <change n="0.1" supposed to be <change version="0.1" ? If so,
shouldn't it be in the attributes section of
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-change.html ? I
see neither n nor version there.
Please look again :-) @n is there.
The upper section lists the attribute classes to which the element
belongs. @target is actually weird and should come from a class
(att.pointing) as well, it should probably become a feature request for
the TEI. Someone probably feared that the other two attributes of
att.pointing would see heavy use on <change>... no idea why.
2. The date of the change is encoded in both the date tag and the when
attribute. Which one is the preferred way to encode it? Or should I
really use both?
One is machine-readable and constrained (the attribute) and one is
human-readable and unconstrained.
3. How should I encode the person doing the change? The example
shows|who="#some_user". |This seems to reference a user declaration
somewhere else. Do we have an example how that "somewhere else" should
look? Or should I use <name> tags instead, like we do in at least some
of our dictionaries?|
I think it would be good to hid the Howto, or at least tag it as mostly
historical and definitely not normative. Please have a look at e.g.
swh-eng, it should have a proper header.
Thanks again for your attention to detail,
Best,
Piotr
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