[tei-council] limited phrase, take 2

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:
> I think I prefer the second of your proposals (i.e. make 
> model.limited.phrase a superset of existing low level model classes),
can you look again, Lou and check thus? model.limited.phrase is in the 
_first_
of Syd's proposals, surely?

>
> Reasons (a) and (c) are purely pragmatic of course and largely 
> conditioned by the desire to get P5 out sooner rather than later.
+1
>
> 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?
not at all. but was it supposed to?

this is what god gave you Schematron for, though people are
amazing reluctant to make use of it.

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