[tei-council] solving unnumbered divs (bis)

Thu Jan 18 04:38:58 EST 2007

Lou Burnard wrote:
>
> Personally I would like to have a good technical argument for making 
> (or not making) any of these changes.
The technical argument is simple. If we don't do something about the 
content model of <body>/<back>/<front>,
the promise of the TEI that you can remove more or less any element and 
things will sort themselves
is out the window.

So jump off the fence, and choose your preference:

  1. leave things as they are. tell Ron to read Syd's solutions on the wiki
  2. rewrite the body content model in such a clever way that it 
survives the loss of div0 and div1 in DTD
  3. model-ize the divXX things so that things come out in the wash (my 
proposal)
  4. rewrite the ODD processor to make a clean DTD whatever happens
  5. all of 2, 3 and 4 simultaneously

I can't believe that we need more info, and more discussion, we've already
spent what seems like years of my life in this area, publicly or 
privately...

Solutions 2. and 4. require resources, so anyone choosing those should
explain who is going to do that work (clue: it aint me...).

You could always call for a vote, Christian :-}

Sebastian