[tei-council] Notes from today;s conference call

[David G. Durand]

Several of Syd's models seemed complicated to me.

The easy way to do this is the following:

   element automobile {
     ( attribute engineType { "int_combustion" | "hybrid" | "electric" }
	  |         element engineType { text }
     ),
     text
     }

For IDREFS, a model like this would work kind of nicely.

element target {
	(element targets { xsd:anyURI+ } |
	 attribute target { xsd:anyURI } )

Actually, if we just allow the declaration of an attribute in the 
declaration of an element, can't we get this? So you could just use 
almost exactly the syntax above.

The explicit attribute spec could be replaced by a pattern name, for a 
pattern generated by the ODD attribute list declaration, for something 
like this:

element target {
	(element targets { xsd:anyURI+ } |
	 tei.attribute.target )


not REALLY ready to propose a syntax, but it looks not as bad as it 
might seem.

   -- David

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