[tei-council] Datatypes.... continued

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:

>It would not work in DTD-land; never has, never will. 
>
I thought one of our baselines was compatibility with DTD
so far as possible? what would your code degrade into?

>As for RelaxNG,
>I don't quite understand the question. I know I can write RelaxNG
>patterns that do this:
>
>  attribute place { list { ( "inline" | "supralinear" | "infralinear" |
>                           "left" | "right" | "top" | "bottom" |
>                           "opposite" | "verso" | "middle" | "center"
>                           | "margin" )+ }} # or whatever the list of
>                                            # values is
>  
>
really? I didn't realize. Fine, that's easy to create from a valList
if it is so instantiated. You'd have to change the syntax of valList,
obviously.

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