[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:

>
> Is there a way to have someone put 'm' and it be understood in the
> schema as iso 5218's '1'?  (Or put 35yrs and it be understood as P35Y
> ?)  Or does this just defeat the point of standards...

if you want to make an editing schema which accepts "m" and "f", and
then run a transformation to
canonical form, feel free....

you can't have your cake and eat it

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