Re: seg and interp

Martin Holmes <[email protected]> Fri, 5 May 2017 05:22:28 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.text.tei.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2017-05-05 12:50 AM, Dominique Mee =C3=B9s wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:55:34 +0200, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <roberto=
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Piotr,
>> I've been tempted to use <taxonomy> for a very similar purpose, but
>> wouldn't that be a sort of "tag abuse"? Since from what I understand
>> reading the relative section in the Guidelines this element should be
>> used for *bibliographical* taxonomies only, it is not a general purpos=
e
>> classification tool.
>
> Reading 2.3.7, I see words bibliosomething used only about the role of =
the bibl element under taxonomy, not about the contents, the domain, of t=
he taxonomy. Even if the examples are quite bibliographical, I see nothin=
g that forbids the use of taxonomy for something else. Or am I mistaken?

I use taxonomies for all sorts of things (document types, rhyme types,=20
stanza types, types of place in a gazetteer...). I've always assumed it=20
was a generic classification structure.

Cheers,
Martin