TEI Stand-Off Markup WG 2002-11-15 Conference Call Notes

Initials Used for People

SB Syd Bauman
LB Lou Burnard
JC Jean Carletta
CC Chris Catton
HC Hamish Cunningham
DD David G. Durand
JH Jessica Hekman
NI Nancy M. Ide
AI Amy Isard
CL Christophe Laprun
LR Lloyd Rutledge
FV Fabio Vitali

Commenced ~15:10 UTC with SB, DD, JH; CC joined later.

Mutliple XPointers on a single refering attribute are allowed, separated by blanks (is why blank must be percent-escaped in an XPointer).

If using an XPointer instead of IDREF you have to use "#" before the 'idref', i.e. "FR" becomes "#FR".

There could easily be tools to do link-checking; would have configuration files to deal with extensions.

Advantages of using XPointers include reduced complexity (no need to explain ID/IDREF, it just works the way HTML does); no indirection for out-of-current-file; simpler ranges; does not have baggage of needing to process entire file in order to use it.

Of course, we'd want people to use URNs, not URLs.

CC & DD seem to agree that RDF may well be way to go when they get the XML syntax stuff sorted out.

Questionss for council include schema. Answers include cross-reference. [?JH...?].

Appendix A:

Wrapped up at ~15:39 UTC.

Many members of this group will be face-to-face in France next week.

Next call would coincide with the American day-after-Thanksgiving ‘holiday’. We will discuss on list whether or not to have call then, and if not whether to have it a week early or a week late.