[tei-council] rendition in ODD

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sat Jun 23 10:58:14 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
> I don't think this is relevant. It would be equally annoying to have 
> the 50,000 ways I might choose to process a <term> cluttering up a 
> single elementSpec wouldn't it?
you put the rendition at the point of divergence. so a document level 
rendition would obviously
override a schema-level one (like we used to do with DTDs)
> In any real case where you had 50,000 documents to process uniformly, 
> you'd do it by using a single stylesheet anyway: and didn't we just 
> agree that what stylesheet you can use is nothing to do with a  schema 
> specification?
did we?
>
> I thought the specific use case under consideration was how to format 
> the TEI Guidelines, which is a single document. 
no, not at all. What James and I wanted was a way to record a default 
rendition of elements
within a given ODD customization, to provide a visualization in a TEI 
editor.

formatting of the Guidelines  was not in our minds at all, sorry if the 
parallel conversation
on the Boared list confused you!
> Your argument would make more sense if we wanted to use the ODD to 
> document a stylesheet, but that hasn't been proposed sfaics.
thats yet another subject, but I am not proposing it here. I am proposing
to include enough info in the ODD to generate various visualization 
stylesheets
from a single source for a given customization.
> Or is this argument really about the respective roles of the header 
> and the ODD?
no, I dont think so

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