[osis-core] General Defaulting Mechanism

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick,

Where would this element go?

Is there only one place to express this?

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:32 PM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: [osis-core] General Defaulting Mechanism
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> We are discussing a more generalized defaulting mechanism than we have
> at present, such as the current work and ref defaults.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> <setDefault path="//GI@AttributeName" prefix="osisWork">
> 
> Note that the XPath expression shown is the only one that is valid at
> present.
> 
> Further note that the value of prefix must be found on a work element
in
> the current document as the value of osisWork attribute.
> 
> This will allow all the current defaulting plus defaulting on lemmas,
> morphology, etc., and any other that comes up in the future without
> further intervention on our part.
> 
> Current mechanisms will persist but if both apply, the newer mechanism
> takes precedence.
> 
> Hope everyone is having a great day!
> 
> Patrick
> --
> Patrick Durusau
> Director of Research and Development
> Society of Biblical Literature
> Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
> Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
> Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
> 
> Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
> 
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