[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

[Sebastian Rahtz]

John A. Walsh wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification, Sebastian. I guess I was still thinking 
> in terms of the more limited enumerated lists in DTDs which only allow 
> one value.  
ah well, a DTD will simply not do any data checking at all in this 
situation.  but who uses DTDs any more?
> The value list approach provides better validation but still does not 
> provide the benefit of linking to explicit and formally defined styles 
> in the <rendition> element in the header
no, but it does provide a formal link to an element in the ODD, and can 
argue that
is even better.
> , but I'm probably beating a horse (whether it's a dead horse or not 
> remains to be seen :-).
>
Your horse can get up and run, it's a good horse. But I think my ODD 
horse may at least
make a race of it.


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