[tei-council] What did we decide?

[Lou Burnard]

Thanks David.

If you check
http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/trac/TEIP5/ticket/33
and
http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/trac/TEIP5/ticket/54
you'll see that I've at last got round to your helpful comments on those 
chapters at least.

L


David J Birnbaum wrote:
> Dear Lou (cc Council),
> 
> My memory about this is a bit foggy, but I thought someone suggested in 
> Berlin that since TEI conformance requires an ODD, the Guidelines should 
> say nothing about modifying the TEI otherwise than through the use of an 
> ODD. That is, although other types of modification can be implemented by 
> someone perverse enough to try, the Guidelines shouldn't get involved in 
> (or even acknowledge the existence of) such non-conformant endeavors.
> 
> I don't remember whether we agreed on this or whether it just floated 
> around the table, slipped out under the door, headed down in the pater 
> noster, and disappeared across the square, but whatever the disposition, 
> I think it would 1) make our lives easier and 2) make the lives of those 
> who wish to modify the TEI easier.
> 
> Best,
> 
> David
> 
> Lou Burnard wrote:
>> 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)
>>
>>
>>
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