Determine whether TEI/@xml:id should be mandatory

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Determine whether TEI/@xml:id should be mandatory #1

Closed mjhawkins closed 1 year ago

mjhawkins commented 1 year ago

The definition for TEI includes two schematron rules. https://github.com/cambridge-collection/cdcp-schemata/blob/21ecf1315428b03ffca8027dda39bb9bb28fbb8e/odd/cdcp-main.odd#L4813

They assert that the xml:id attribute must contain either:

the full path to the document OR
a unique string within the institutes entire collection starting with either manuscript or volume followed by some digits.

Are these general rules that we wish to adopt or are they specific to the MC

mjhawkins commented 1 year ago

I will move the rule that declares that TEI's xml:id is mandatory to MC.xml. Documents using the General Schema (GS) or Digital Platform schema (DP) can still have it. They just won't complain if it's absent.

We will have to hold a discussion about persistent identifiers (in general) and I have created an issue for that.