First, excuse me for my english. The idea of using <note> is good, but not for all use and not like you want. First, we have lots of informations who can be annotated : historical informations, critical apparatus, identification, bibliographical references and the element <note> must not use for all this informations. For example, i use <note> for historical information, identifications and eventually bibliographical references. But I use the elements dedicated for critical apparatus (<app>, <sic>, <add>... cf my communication in Münich), it's very important to separate this differents informations. Second, i am not ok to use the element <note> like you propose. There is two problems : - Your utilisation is not compatible with TEI, who enclose the footnote body in the NOTE element and reference a point in the text. it's logical. - If you put the footnote body in an attribute, you can't markup this footnote body with elements, because in XML we can't have an element in an attribute. And lots of time, we need to indicate a title or others informations in the footnote body. So, if i am understanding well, you want a mean of interpreting or annotating the text, i recommand you to looking the chapter 15 of TEI guideliness : Simple Analytic Mechanisms and, in particular, spans and interpretations : http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/AI.html#AISP for the historical interpretations. For the critical apparatus, i recommand you to looking the chapters 18 and 19 and you can see how we do in our editions (http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cartulaireblanc/rueil.xml, this edition is not finished, please, don't diffuse this URL). You can use too the element <persName> and <placeName> for the identifications. Best regards, Gautier Poupeau Gerhard Schoen a écrit :
Hello CEI-L,
regarding the <note> entry in the tag library on the CEI web site --
The word or phrase of the running text which is being annotated could be enclosed by the NOTE element, while the footnote body would be the value of an attribute named say CONTENT.
This syntax can be easily transformed into HTML or TeX/PDF. Since the footnote body is given within the running text, there is no need of a footnote reference or ID attribute. The footnote marker would be generated by the transformation.
Best regards,
Gerhard Schön ITG/LMU