Re: seg and interp
Piotr Bański <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:24:31 +0200
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Dear Mike,
It looks like your system assumes a rich taxonomy of objects the textual
cues to which you choose to identify in your corpus. I would suggest
that you first explore the possibilities that <taxonomy> gives you, as
it will free you of the need to parse your attributes later on, but it
will also force you (or help you) to keep your (so far merely implied)
taxonomy consistent throughout.
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-taxonomy.html
Below is a fragment that uses <seg> alone -- which you may like, because
it's simpler for the encoders.
Remarks:
1. the markup below presupposes several hierarchically organised
<taxonomy> elements in the header.
2. I am not sure what you use @function for, so I just keep it as-is
3. It is a good idea to index at least the added <seg> elements. The
indices I added to them have nearly random content.
4. You don't need @prev on the last one, but it may be useful. It's up
to you and your tools. I assumed a rule whereby if there is no @ana
attribute, it means that the <seg> is a continuation, and @prev points
to the previous one in the chain. But YMMV.
5. Sorry about the line breaks, you may want to paste this fragment into
your test TEI document and reformat.
Hope this helps,
Piotr
<body>
<div>
<p>In the <seg xml:id="d-p3-s3" ana="#place.main">Country
of the Bhargas, on Mount
Śuśumāra in a fearsome forest of wild animals</seg>
with a <seg xml:id="d-p3-s4"
ana="#audience.Gen">great saṅgha of about 500 monks,
eminent śrāvaka-elders who
possessed clairvoyance</seg>.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p><seg xml:id="d-p-s43" function="modul"
ana="#past.life.Who">if you wonder whether the
brahmin boy Bhadraśuddha was then at that time
someone else, or you are of two
minds about it, or doubtful, do not see him so. Why?
Because the bodhisattva
mahāsattva Maitreya himself was then at that time the
brahmin boy
Bhadraśuddha</seg></p>
<p>
<seg xml:id="d-p-s44" function="modul"
type="#qualities.Buddha" next="#d-p-s45">The
Tathāgata was handsome and charismatic, controlled in
his faculties and in his
mind. He had attained excellence in control and calm
abiding, and superiority in
control and calm abiding. He guarded his faculties,
elephant-like in control of
his passions, and was radiant, unsullied, and clear
like a lake.</seg></p>
<p><seg xml:id="d-p-s45" function="modul"
prev="#d-p-s44">His body was adorned with the
thirty-two marks of a great being, and with the
eighty minor marks, like the
blossoming flower of a royal sal tree, and towering
like Mount Meru, the king of
mountains. His face was as calm as the sphere of the
moon, and radiantly clear and
brilliant like the sphere of the sun. His body was
proportioned like a nyagrodha
tree, blazing with light and great splendor.</seg></p>
</div>
</body>
On 28/04/17 09:41, Mike Engle wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm involved in a project in which we're marking up a large body of
> literature and we want to mark various passages in the texts as
> significant, in essence labeling them as "this" or "that". We took a
> look through the TEI Guidelines and decided to use <seg> and <interp> to
> mark the various passages with different attributes to specifiy what
> type of passage it is.
>
> For example, with <interp>:
>
> In the <interptype="placeMain">Country of the Bhargas, on Mount Śuśumāra
> in a fearsome forest of wild animals</interp> with a <interp
> type="audienceGen">great saṅgha of about 500 monks, eminent
> śrāvaka-elders who possessed clairvoyance</interp>.
>
>
> And with <seg>:
>
> <segfunction="modul"type="pastLifeWho">if you wonder whether the brahmin boy
> Bhadraśuddha was then at that time someone else,
> or you are of two minds
> about it, or doubtful, do not see him so. Why?
> Because the bodhisattva
> mahāsattva Maitreya himself was then at that
> time the brahmin boy
> Bhadraśuddha</seg>
>
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Since this is going to be a very long term and labor extensive
> project, I wanted to check and see if the community in general felt this
> was a reasonable way to mark these passages and also if there are any
> suggestions for other ways to do this which might work better. Can
> anyone suggest any other elements that might be useful for this kind of
> thing?
>
> 2) We have a problem of going across elements (breaking the nesting so
> to speak). For instance, a passage might start in the middle of one
> paragraph and finish halfway through another paragraph, and when we mark
> it the tag begins in one paragraph and closes in the next. The schema
> doesn't like this one bit, and I'm wondering what is the best way to
> handle this. For example:
>
>
> <p><seg function="modul" type="qualitiesBuddha">The Tathāgata was
> handsome and charismatic,
> controlled in his faculties and in his mind. He
> had attained excellence in
> control and calm abiding, and superiority in
> control and calm abiding. He
> guarded his faculties, elephant-like in control
> of his passions, and
> was radiant, unsullied, and clear like a lake.</p>
>
> <p>His body was adorned with the
> thirty-two marks of a great being, and with the
> eighty minor marks, like the
> blossoming flower of a royal sal tree, and
> towering like Mount Meru, the
> king of mountains. His face was as calm as the
> sphere of the moon, and
> radiantly clear and brilliant like the sphere of
> the sun. His body was proportioned like a
> nyagrodha tree, blazing with light
> and great splendor.</seg></p>
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciate. Forgive the formatting
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>