[tei-council] comments on edw90

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote some time back (sorry, catching up on email on the train):

>
> Sebastian, could we arrange the process so that just
>specifying, e.g.
>          <elementSpec module="core" ident="note" mode="change">
>            <attList>
>              <attDef ident="place">
>                <valList type="closed"/>
>              </attDef>
>            </attList>
>          </elementSpec>
>would work? 
>
you mean <attDef ident="place" mode="change">
    <valList type="closed" mode="change"/>

quite incrediblly, this works!

>
> In
>particular, since the restriction is a facet, we can't use this
>feature to have one TEI datatype for numeric representations
>(tei.data.numeric), and say "this attribute is one of
>tei.data.numeric, but must be a non-negative integer".
>  
>
sadly, I suspect this _would_ be possibly in W3C Schema.
MScQ will say "told you so".


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