[tei-council] formatting of guidelines - schema fragments

[Laurent Romary]

BNF: Yearrrk.

I must admit I do read RelaxNG fragment to check the content models  
and their presence inliine within chapters is quite a nice feature  
for me. I have more problems with the fact that for each class  
description, we get the various variants of linearisation (ordered,  
unordered, optional, etc.). Could we get rid of that?

Laurent

Le 12 avr. 07 à 16:37, Lou Burnard a écrit :

> Dan O'Donnell wrote:
> I do see that it is a bit
>>> strange that we are saying ODD is the way and then showing one  
>>> particular
>>> interpretation of that ODD as Relax NG Compact Syntax throughout the
>>> guidelines.
>> I agree. Good catch, Sebastian--although you don't seem to do any  
>> other
>> kind!
>
> Coincidentamentally, only yesterday I was asked by the person  
> currently rewriting the FSD spec for ISO why we used this funny  
> syntax (he meant RelaxNC) to express constraints on the element  
> structures. I told him that we had to use some formal language or  
> other, and that the compact syntax was felt to be simpler to take  
> in than the comparatively verbose relaxng syntax used in the ODDs.
>
> While I take the point, I don't see any sensible alternative. BNF  
> anyone?
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