[tei-council] better constraints

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jul 5 04:48:37 EDT 2007


Syd Bauman wrote:
> There are a few elements in the TEI scheme which should, I think,
> have their *content* constrained to an appropriate datatype. In
> paricular: 
>
>   element        current declaration      should be
>   -------        ------- -----------      ------ --
>   <gi>           text                     data.name
>   <att>          text                     data.name
>   <altIdent>     macro.xtext              data.name
>
> Any objections?
>   
there are usages of <gi> which will break if you do that, such as

<gi>ptr target="#Ham01245"/</gi>.
and <gi>binary value="false"</gi>

so decide first if those are misguided.

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