Binding revisions

[holfordm]

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[andrew-morrison]

You can define a prefix in the root element in the TEI record, same as in the XSLT, like this...

<TEI xml:id="manuscript_7799" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:msdesc="http://www.example.org/ns/msdesc">

...then this...

<spine xmlns="http://www.example.org/ns/msdesc">The binding has a slight round spine shape. No spine linings.</spine>

...could be replaced with this...

<msdesc:spine>The binding has a slight round spine shape. No spine linings.</msdesc:spine>

...and, because the default namespace would still be the TEI one, valid TEI tags could be used inside without re-declaring their namespace, like this...

<msdesc:spine>The binding has a slight round spine shape. <hi rend="bold">No spine linings.</hi></msdesc:spine>

It is all the same to an XML parser but more concise and clearer for humans.

In the XSLT, it would be better if the templates for each new element output a <div> instead of a <p>. That way, if they contain TEI <p> those would be transformed into HTML <p> without being nested inside another <p>, which is invalid (although web browsers will cope.)