Re: <ptr>

On 3 Apr 2012, at 13:14, Martin Holmes wrote:
> To put it another way, what's the _useful_ distinction between:
> 
> <ref target="http://tei-c.org"></ref>
> 
> and
> 
> <ptr target="http://tei-c.org"/>

I am sure you could say that about many another pair of elements in the TEI :-}

to me, <ref> lets you classify some existing text (and optionally point to a location),
whereas <ptr> is either (cf JPM) an interpretative milestone or a processing
instruction.
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