I do agree that the examples of <ptr> have the potential to confuse, as they mix born-digital encoding
with transcription encoding. Leaving that aside, though, the processor which wants to handle arbitrary
TEI XML texts does not have _that_ hard a task to decide how to handle <ptr>. You basically follow the link
and ask the object you arrive at what its title is. so
* a web site may return its URL or a head/title element from its HTML
* a div/list/table in TEI may return its <head>
* a <biblStruct> may return "Author, Year" or [33] depending on desired style
* any of them may return their page number, if you are in print mode.
etc.
But these "rules" are not written down by the TEI. One of us could propose such a rule
set for adoption, an algorithm we can all implement, and that would be nice.
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