[tei-council] <date>, <distance>, and <measure>

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sat Jan 20 09:31:59 EST 2007


Syd Bauman wrote:
>> 2. As it happens, yes we do have a way of representing a choice of
>> attributes in ODD. See
>> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/ref-attList.html.
>> There is a (not very good) example at 27.3.3.3 and we use it on eg
>> <gloss> and <relation>
>>     
>
> Right, but IIRC Sebastian has pointed out that this mechanism can
> only be used to alternate two attributes, not one attribute with a
> group of others or two groups. I am not sure whether this restriction
> existed only back then, exists currently, or will in perpetuity.
>   
If you believe the attList specification allows what
you need, then I should implement it.  I'm willing
to have a try, if its needed.

On the other hand, restrictions like this are
good candidates for Schematron, as you say.

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