Identifying attributes that should be teidata.pointer
Martin Holmes <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:16:02 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.tei.general |
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HI all, As part of a project to develop some generic code to run on any collection of TEI documents and check idref integrity, we've been faced with finding a relatively simple way to iterate through all the attributes in a document that have the teidata.pointer type. There are 109 attDefs with the teidata.pointer type in the P5 source, some defined in classes and some directly on elements. There are a further 29 attributes which share a name with one of the 109, but which are not pointers. For instance: leaf/@value is teidata.pointer, but binary/@value is not. keywords/@scheme is teidata.pointer, but tag/@scheme is not. The situation is further complicated by the fact that some attributes are derived from others by redefining with @mode="change", and may or may not redefined their datatype (I believe there's only one case of this affecting teidata.pointer attributes, alt/@target, but more may crop up in time). What would you say is the simplest, cleanest way to generate an XPath which selects all and only the teidata.pointer attributes in a document which validates against tei_all? Cheers, Martin