[tei-council] Re: ODD notes

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:
>
> 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
I will treat this as  bug report for the XSL tools
>
> 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)
I agree. any objections?
>
> 4. When deleting (eg) an elementSpec, why is it necessary to specify 
> the module? this is redundant, surely.
I will look at schema to see if we can trap this. probably @module and 
@mode are alternates;
is that true, Syd?
>
> 5. Should the text of the TEI Guidelines not include a <schemaSpec> 
> somewhere, generating (presumably) tei_all?
quite possibly. thats a big question, related to whether we should 
generate modular schemas
>
> 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?
I will look at the schema to see if we can do this


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