[osis-core] Depreciate or remove <speaker>

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> Should we depreciate or remove <speaker>?
> 

Don't think so.

Who appears as an attribute on:

<actorCT>
<qCT>
<speakerCT>

This is probably a TEI legacy (or brain damage, depends on your point of 
  view) where the who on the <sp> is the equivalent of using <speaker>, 
which is found in dramatic texts.

I think it is useful to encode a name of the speaker as more than just a 
bare name in the running text. Could use who on <qCT> for example, but 
that gives you who was speaking the quote and not markup of the name of 
the speaker. For example:

<speaker><name>Patrick</name></speaker> said <q who="Patrick_Durusau" 
level="l">One of my favorite songs has the line <q who="Jetro_Tull">from 
warm milk on a lazy day...to dawn patrol on hungry hate...</q></q>

Note that I capture both the canonical form of the name of the speaker 
with who, but also the name in the text with the speaker element.

Does that help?

Hope the class is going well!

Patrick


> Is there a reason to have a separate element AND "who" when we use "who"
> elsewhere?
> 
> Todd
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Patrick Durusau
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Society of Biblical Literature
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