[tei-council] limited phrase, take 2
Lou Burnard
lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Tue Jan 30 16:21:51 EST 2007
I think I prefer the second of your proposals (i.e. make
model.limited.phrase a superset of existing low level model classes), for
the following reasons
a) it's what we originally decided to do
b) it makes it a little easier for users to decide for themselves what
does into model.limited.phrase: because it works with the existing model
definitions, it's a bit easier to say "I want that kind of thing in my
header too" (or not)
c) it avoids having to rethink all the existing class assignations
Reasons (a) and (c) are purely pragmatic of course and largely conditioned
by the desire to get P5 out sooner rather than later.
Another (third) option, if we do want to reopen this can of worms though,
might be to define a new macro "anorexicPhraseSequence".
Let's remind ourselves of a use case for this. I am (currently) rather
obsessed by the BNC, so forgive me for harping on about that. I want to
be able to say that the <p>s in my corpus headers have a content model
which is a specific subset of the <p>s in my corpus texts (only PCDATA,
not PCDATA or <s>, for example). How would each of these proposals help me
with that problem?
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