TEI Stand-Off Markup WG 2002-09-12 Conference Call Notes
Initials Used for People
- SB Syd Bauman
- LB Lou Burnard
- JC Jean Carletta
- CC Chris Catton
- HC Hamish Cunningham
- DD David G. Durand
- JH Jessica Hekman
- NI Nancy M. Ide
- AI Amy Isard
- CL Christophe Laprun
- LR Lloyd Rutledge
- FV Fabio Vitali
Pre-call discussion on annotation graphs.
Commenced ~12:07 UTC w/ SB, JH, NI, JC, CC.
deliverables
XPointer tutorial: let's look at what's out there before committing to spending time and energy writing one. Although the consensus is that a tutorial aimed at the TEI market is probably a Good Thing, it is low priority, in part because the list of tutorials available out there in the world is likely to have changed by the time we finish our other work.
XPointer: extension w/ regexp. Yes, we want prose describing this as a deliverable. We'd like to take a look at what FV's group has done first. He plans to publish a paper and open source the implementation of XSLT with XPointers extended with regular expressions some time after the 19th. [FV -- do we have that right?]
XLink tutorial: same as XPointer.
XLink: TEI-specific details element names, roles, etc. JH suggests that a chunk of prose discussing how to use XLink in TEI. We are thinking of a chapter (or section or whatever) devoted to using XLink, with references to it sprinkled throughout the Guidelines wherever needed.
SB points out we need to identify all the areas of the Guidelines that need to be tweaked. I.e., someone needs to go through the Guidelines finding each spot that discusses linking in an old way that needs to be updated. (Separate issue, of course, is someone needs to update it :-)
CC: postponing until next week whether or not discussion of time-based stuff is needed.
JH: so, as deliverables, we are going with all 5 DD mentioned in Agenda (e-mail to list ‘Conference call instructions and agenda’ of 13 Sep; list of places to update; 2 major sections, 1 on read-only text, 1 on read-only other media; JC: a chapter rolling up discussions of the various tasks for XLink (including, but not limited to, indicating ambiguity in a tag and indicating alternative tagging) in one place?
For this coming week ('twixt now and next call) JC suggests we discuss whether we should just have specific TEI elements which are XLinks, or whether we will allow any TEI element to be an XLink by using XLink attributes. JH points out we need use use cases.
Appendix A:
Wrapped up at ~12:35 UTC with consensus to try to concentrate on XLink issues over next week.