[tei-council] numbered divs, a proposed solution

[John A. Walsh]

On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>> So, is the real issue behind this whether we want to rely on
>> Schematron for these tests? And to do so for a special case
>> solution? Does adopting Schematron for this have any negative
>> implications?

I think the negative implication is that if we tell the TEI user  
community that they need to use DTDs + Schematron (or W3C/RELAX NG +  
Schematron) to validate their documents correctly, many of them will  
run away screaming.  Or they will run away silently because they  
don't want to admit they don't know or care what Schematron is.  And  
they'll probably run back to the perceived warm comforting arms of P4  
and plain old DTDs.  I think the user community needs the choice  
between DTD and W3C; some, including me, want the choice of RELAX NG  
as well.  They don't want a requirement to use Schematron, except for  
their own content validation.  I think it's important that we avoid a  
need to use Schematron.

John

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