[osis-core] General Defaulting Mechanism

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> Where would this element go?
> 
> Is there only one place to express this?
> 

Current thinking is that it would go in the <header>, which is currently 
a sequence of <revisionDesc> and <work>, both of which are repeatable.

<setDefault> would be the third element in the sequence and also be 
repeatable.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick


> 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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-- 
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!