On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Nicholas Finke wrote:
> > Please add my voice to those crying for the retention of biblStruct.
>
> Of course, keeping an item in the TEI has its cost. We'll be looking
> for sponsorship soon for each item, and we'll expecting
> all <biblStruct> users to pledge, say, $1000 a year to keep their
> favoured element alive.

Hmm. Why stop there? I'd suggest the following modest addition to the
definition of the att.global class in the global.odd file for P5:

  <attDef ident="donor" usage="req">
     <desc>Designates the donor who sponsored the parent element.</desc>
     <datatype>
	<rng:text xmlns:rng="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"/>
     </datatype>
     <default/>
     <valList type="open"/>
  </attDef>

Short and sweet. No TEI P5 file will validate unless every element has
a donor attribute.

It's the same logic that gives us wonders such as "the Carl Smith Center, home
of David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium" at the University of Virginia,
which must be the paradigm case of nested donorship. (The football
stadium was originally named for the Scott family; when David Harrison
donated $$$ to replace the turf the field inside was named for him; when
Carl Smith donated $$$ to expand the stadium, the "area encompassing Scott
Stadium [was] named the Carl Smith Center in Smith's honor", to quote
from the official press release. Talk about an OHCO!)

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