[tei-council] P5, roma and bibl[Item|Struct] (Solved!!)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Christian Wittern wrote:

>As you see, for the moment I am spending my time kicking the tires,
>which seems to through a lot of dust.
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shows they are well travelled

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>>we used to make <foo> a <notAllowed/> to make this work, but
>>that meant the DTD ended up with ()*. 
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>Wouldn't it be easier to post-fix that in the DTD, if that gives you
>overall a cleaner production line?
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My current view is that this *is* the cleaner production line, doing
all the work at the odd2odd stage, so that resulting expanded ODD
is easy to translate to schema or DTD. We could imagine writing a direct
ODD to W3C schema, for instance.

Naturally, the whole ODD-processing production line can
be re-implemented in the future if anyone ever has a proper
computer scientist to assign to the job. If I was doing a risk
analysis of the TEI, I'd say that one of the problems of P5 is that
we are too dependent on  single tool chain, just as we were with P4.
It's one of the reason why I favour promoting "native" use of Relax NG,
as it gives an alternative technology. Of course, it still depends on the
base ODD to Relax conversion, but I am fairly confident that this is stable
and replicable.

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