[tei-council] ODD notes

[Christian Wittern]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Syd Bauman wrote:
>> I think ODD should allow multiple <schemaSpec>s, but `roma` (and
>> Roma) should be more forceful about giving an "I'm sorry, I can't
>> do that" message than it is now. If no one else wants to do this, I
>> will try to get to it by the weekend.
>>   
> I looked at this again just now, and I have to say that
> making Roma and friends do multiple schemas would
> be hard. The XSL makes a lot of use of xsl:key, which
> looks over the whole file. The only short-term solution
> would be a preprocessor to split a ODD into a
> series of new self-contained files.
What's the use case for multiple schemaSpecs anyway? 
Wouldn't it be easier to simply disallow more than one?

Christian


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