[tei-council] Guidelines formatting

[Conal Tuohy]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 00:23 +0100, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > yes, the big day has arrived, at 
> > http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Guidelines/en/guidelines-en.xml.ID=REFTAG
> >
> > you can see the parentage of elements, classes and macros. Now,
> > I think its silly and unwieldy, but does it make  those people who
> > have been asking for it for years happy?
> >
> This looks more than silly to me. Does anyone seriously want the 
> Guidelines to look like this?

I think it's a handy feature, but it could use some improvement, maybe.

> it doesn't indicate the macros and model classes which are 
> what really determines parent/child relationships in the TEI model, so 
> you can't use it to work out how you might customize the TEI properly.

That's true. It's still useful for encoders though as a quick reference.
Otherwise, you have to click through model classes, which is an obstacle
if you don't know the internal anatomy of the TEI. 

Perhaps the allowable parents could be integrated into the display of
the element's class?

i.e. each class would have its own "Parents" list (of the parent
elements whose content model includes that class). Is that feasible?