[tei-council] ODD notes

[Lou Burnard]

Here's a brief list of some ODD issues raised by Sylvain Loiseau when I 
met him in Paris last week.

1. Can an ODD document contain more than one <schemaSpec> element? The 
schema permits this, but the current toolkit expects to produce only one 
set of outputs. So either multiple schemaSpec elements should generate 
an error or the current toolkit needs enhancing

2. Why is <attRef> not a member of model.oddRef?

3. If ODD is meant to be fully general there ought to be some way of 
specifying the base collection of modules which are to be combined by 
reference from within a schemaSpec, defaulting to "tei". A @base 
attribute on the schemaSpec might do this (not to be confused with 
xml:base however)

4. When deleting (eg) an elementSpec, why is it necessary to specify the 
module? this is redundant, surely.

5. Should the text of the TEI Guidelines not include a <schemaSpec> 
somewhere, generating (presumably) tei_all?

6. We don't specify anywhere in what circumstances order is significant 
for the declarations within a <schemaSpec>, nor that only the 
declarations contained by one (either directly or via moduleRef, 
specGrpRef etc) are used in the output schema. Should declarations not 
so contained generate an error?

7. What is the rationale for declaring classes local to a module instead 
of as part of the infrastructure module?

Sylvain, for those who don't know him, is (amongst other interesting 
things) working on a project at LIMSI to convert the French wikipedia 
into TEI XML markup