[osis-core] header info format again
Harry Plantinga
osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:51:00 -0400
> You are not using format in the sense of "rend" but in the sense of
> "abbr" and "expan" (well, not exactly but you get the point) of TEI.
> Hmmm, OK, that should be easy enough to add as an attribute value.
> (Sorry it took so many tries for me to hear what you were saying!) I
> assume it should be a datatype so that we can use the "x-" extension
> mechanism for ones not defined in OSIS?
Right!
Wow, it really is hard to talk across disciplines, isn't it. To a
computer scientist, the _format_ of a piece of data has to do with
how a _computer_ woudl read the data, not how it would appear to a
human... XML is a format, ISO-9661 is a format, <i> is rendering...
> Perhaps an attribute "form" that is documented to be a reference to
> system (possibly outside the document for LC headings for example) that
> govern the content. Sort of like the data typing of schema but without
> the validation mechanism.
If format gives the wrong connotations to you, "form" seems a bit vague
to me, with irrelevant connotations. How about dataFormat? scheme?
-Harry