[tei-council] how much can one customize and still have a TEI document?

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:
> This states, as already noted in this thread, that you are not allowed 
> to remove the TEI Header, and furthermore specifies three topics 
> (identification, publication, source) that your header must address in 
> some way.
and since it does enforce any content model for this, it is of limited 
use as it stands
>
> (a) what mechanisms beyond a more formal statement of the limits of 
> modifiability are feasible?
>
if you said that TEI conformance mandates an ODD in existence, one could
write an ODD analyzer which implemented rules. ie it could detect
if the xmlns attribute changed, or <TEI> was deleted.
> (b) and what, beyond what's already on the table, should those limits be?
>
I have changed my wiki page to distinguish between levels
of _conformance_ and levels of  _compatibility_, and added
a global exception statement.

By the way, I would recommend that the conformance chapter adopt the W3C
language of "must", "may", "should" etc....

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