Re: Why @type is not allowed in <occupation>

Syd Bauman <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Mar 2017 18:14:12 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.text.tei.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Really good question. I'm not sure I see any reason why <occupation>
should not be a member of att.typed. Could just be an oversight. That
said, I think the expectation was that encoders would use the more
structured @code attribute approach.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
  <teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
        <title>tiny occupation demo</title>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <p>unpublished, except on TEI-L as a demo</p>
      </publicationStmt>
      <sourceDesc>
        <p>born digital</p>
      </sourceDesc>
    </fileDesc>
    <encodingDesc>
      <classDecl>
        <taxonomy>
          <category>
            <catDesc>primary</catDesc>
            <category xml:id="to1.hx"><catDesc>Historian</catDesc></category>
            <category xml:id="to1.ju"><catDesc>Jurist</catDesc></category>
            <category xml:id="to1.st"><catDesc>Statistician</catDesc></category>
            <category xml:id="to1.xp"><catDesc>XML Progammer/Analyst</catDesc></category>
            <category xml:id="to1.pa"><catDesc>Assasin</catDesc></category>
            <category xml:id="to1.ct"><catDesc>Chemistry teacher</catDesc></category>
          </category>
          <category>
            <catDesc>secondary</catDesc>
            <category xml:id="to2.hm"><catDesc>Courtmaster</catDesc></category>
            <category xml:id="to2.dd"><catDesc>Drug dealer</catDesc></category>
            <category xml:id="to2.em"><catDesc>Embezzler</catDesc></category>
          </category>          
        </taxonomy>
      </classDecl>
    </encodingDesc>
  </teiHeader>
  <text>
    <body>
      <listPerson>
        <person xml:id="WW">
          <persName>White, Walter</persName>
          <occupation from="1992" to="2013" code="#to1.ct"/>
          <occupation from="2008" to="2013" code="#to2.dd"/>
        </person>
      </listPerson>
    </body>
  </text>
</TEI>


> I am encoding a very detailed prosopography of a person that had
> many occupations with the element <occupation>. We would like to
> distinguish his “main” occupations from his “secondary”
> occupations. Here is an example:
> 
> <person>
> 
> <!— some elements here -->
> 
> <occupation from="1785">Historiker</occupation>
>                <occupation>Jurist</occupation>
>                <occupation>Statistiker</occupation>
> 
>                <occupation>Hofmeister / Söhne des Kanzlers von Gersdorff in
> Dresden 1743-46</occupation>
>                <occupation >PD philos. / Geschichte, Statistik, Natur- und
> Völkerrecht Marburg 1746-</occupation>
>                <occupation>aoP. philos. / Geschichte u. Statistik Göttingen
> 1748-</occupation>
>                <occupation>aoP. iur. / Göttingen April 1753-</occupation>
> 
> <!— more elements here -->
> 
> </person>
> 
> For this reason, I had a look at the content model model.personPart
> <http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-model.personPart.html>.
> Most of its elements accepts the attribute @role whereas only
> <persName>, <state> and <trait> accept the attribute @type.
> 
> Can anyone explain why <occupation> is not permitted to contain a
> @type attribute? Or is there a better solution for my problem?