[osis-core] Depreciate or remove <speaker>

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick,

That makes sense. 

Thanks.

Todd

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> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:44 PM
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> Subject: Re: [osis-core] Depreciate or remove <speaker>
> 
> 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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