[tei-council] TEI Conformance

[Dan O'Donnell]

On Tue, 2006-21-11 at 18:16 +0000, James Cummings wrote:
> > 
> > I liked the way the first four were stated: good rules and very clear.
> 
> They basically come from the existing chapter.
> 
> > What about the last two:
> 
> I had stated these differently because I didn't want to make them requirements. 
>   (Although I don't mind if others believe they should.
> > 
> > -A TEI-conformant TEI P5 document must document any new customisations
> > of the TEI Schemas with a valid TEI ODD file
> 
> How about "A TEI-conformant TEI P5 document *should* document *any* 
> customisations of the TEI Schemas with a valid TEI ODD file" ... Any existing 
> TEI-supported customisations already have an ODD file, so that customisations 
> are new is implicit?
> 
> > -A TEI-conformant TEI P5 document must relate any renamed or new
> > elements, attributes, and classes to existing TEI structures using
> > tei:equiv.
> 
> I don't agree with this one.  I think that any renamed or otherwise modified 
> existing elements, or new elements (etc.) which have TEI equivalents should use 
> tei:equiv.  But this isn't all new elements (etc.), because you can add elements 
> which don't have TEI equivalents.  Those, I suggest, might be better in a 
> different namespace.

Well, this is the reason I brought up the rewording: It seems to me
criteria are part of being a conformant document if we are comfortable
stating them as minimum requirements; and they are advice if we are not.
In the first of the two criteria under discussion, I guess the question
is how committed we are to ODDs as a standard for us? 

For the second topic, I too was wondering about the "new" elements (they
were in your original list, though I couldn't see how they could be
named using equiv). So how about:

-A TEI-conformant TEI P5 document must relate any renamed elements,
attributes, and classes to existing TEI structures using tei:equiv.

-dan

> 
> -James
> 
> 
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