[osis-core] Element Review: abbr

[Steve DeRose]

At 04:02 PM -0400 06/16/02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Working through the chart (hopefully towards a final release, you 
>have printed your copy?).
>
><abbr>
>
>contains PCDATA and only child element (optional) is <note>.
>
>Question:
>
>Should we add: <divineName>, <foreign>, <name>, <note>, <reference>?
>
>The reason for the name/foreign is to allow tagging information 
>inside the <abbr> element. Should note best practice that <abbr> 
>should be the container element and other claims made within the 
>element: thus, <abbr expansion="Shreveport"><name 
>type="geographic">S'port</name></abbr> (my home town).

Yes. BTW, we should get Marlene (tech writer) onto this list so she 
hears about all these best practice notions; or we should forward the 
appropriate emails to her.


>(Far less than TEI has but we are striving for a simpler content model.)
>
>Patrick
>
>--
>Patrick Durusau
>Director of Research and Development
>Society of Biblical Literature
>pdurusau@emory.edu


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