[tei-council] What did we decide?

[Lou Burnard]

I thought we had some discussion in Berlin about what the Guidelines 
should say about the feasibility of constructing a TEI schema by non-ODD 
methods, e.g. by lumping together references to TEI dtd fragments within 
a doctype, or building a relaxng schema by referencing the TEI Relaxng 
modules.

I cannot however find any reference to it in the minutes (instead they 
seem to document all sorts of minor corrections which we not only 
decided but dealt with in the meeting itself)

Before I go ahead and rewrite history, here's what I believe the party 
line to be:

1. TEI Conformance (whether implicit  or algorithmic) requires that 
there be an ODD. Therefore if you don't have an ODD, you cannot be TEI 
conformant.

2. Nevertheless, we do create TEI modules as distinct schema/DTD 
fragments, with published names (someone was actioned to review the 
names I think? sebastian?) and document said names and modules.

So, if you're smart, you can go ahead and build yourself a TEI aschema 
without an ODD. But we don't promise it will always work -- at release 
1.n we might (for example) move an element from one module to another.

Argal, the discussion in ST.xml#STIN should refer only to ODDs? (which 
is where I came in)