<div> or <seg> or ...

Di Nov 9 19:28:45 CET 2004

m.margolin at utoronto.ca a écrit :

>Hi everybody,
>
>1. <div> vs. <seg>
>        My suggestion to use <seg> for diplomatic parts encoding is based solely
>on the TEI definition stating that <seg> marks a text fragment and that exactly
>what the diplomatic part is. On the other hand <div> is more generic by
>definition and may contain some meta data along with the text.
> I think that we should always seek the balance between specific and generic.
>The prize of being to generic would be a performance penalty on the any kind of
>information retrievals. On the other hand any attempt to enumerate content of 
>the data (for example to use precisely named element inside of the <tenor> can
>lead to making encoding to restrictive and essentially not applicable.
>    Therefore  I suggest to use <div type=document>  instead of <document> ,
>keep <tenor> because of its unambiguous meaning and use <seg> to encode any
>diplomatic part on any level.
>
The <seg> element isn't accurate, because it can't contain the <p> 
element. Though you can have several paragraphs in a diplomatic part.
For the <div type=document>, i prefer the <text> element as I explain in 
my preceding mail. The advantage of this element is you can have a 
<text> element for each charter. If you have one single document, you 
have this structure :
<tei.2>
    <teiHeader>
    <teiHeader>
    <text>
       <front>
          Metadata and analysis of the charter
       </front>
       <body>
          List of witnesses and bibliography and the edited text of charter
       </body>
       <back>
          appended document
       </back>
</teI.2>
If you have a cartulary, you can use the <group> element instead of 
<body>, so you have :
<tei.2>
    <teiHeader>
    </teiHeader>
    <front>
       Introduction and presentation of cartulary
    </front>
    <group>
       <text>
             .....The same structure for on charter
       </text>
          .... Much as <text> element as charter
    </group>
    <back>
       appended documents for the cartulary
    </back>
</tei.2>

Gautier