[MEI-L] pointing mechanism

[Raffaele Viglianti]

Hi Zoltan,

Why is the musical text contained at another location? What do you need to
model? If it's at another location just for practical /architectural
reasons, I'd consider using XInclude instead of ptr/ref.

Raff


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Kőmíves Zoltán <zolaemil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear MEI-L people!
>
> I'm trying to express that the musical text is contained at another
> location, however neither of music, body, mdiv and score elements allow the
> pointing attributes, nor they can contain ptr of ref elements. I could rely
> on referencing from a section element, but I wonder why I cannot do it from
> higher level ones?
>
> Or my question worded in another way: the pointing mechanism provided by
> ptr, ref and the att.pointing attribute class, from their description in
> the Guidelines, seem to be very generic. I'd assume if it is generic, it
> would be allowed everywhere where it is not impractical, but their use seem
> to be a lot more restricted. Why is that?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Zoltan
>
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