[tei-council] oversimplification: <measure> isn't measured

[Daniel O'Donnell]

Was not a point that there was a mix of text and children possible in
measure?

As I remember the discussion is was largely to try and make dimensions
machine-usable.

Did you not record the meeting Syd?

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:57 -0400, Syd Bauman wrote:
> > This is what I have in my notes from Berlin:
> > DOD: use of extent/dimensions compared to measure (to be
> > constrained within this chapter); LB: chapter that lack integration
> > with the class model; redefinition of height and width (as special
> > cases of measure) and dimensions could be a grouped measure (all in
> > measureLike class). We would have particular constraints for the
> > manuscript module (e.g. Always height and width within the
> > measurement group).
> 
> Thank you so much, Arianna! This does seem to imply we had not
> planned to nuke <height>, <width>, and <depth>.
> 
> It does sound like we might have intended to use a Schematron rule to
> enforce the ( height, width, depth? ) content model of <measureGrp>
> iff it is inside a manuscript description. But my over-imaginative
> mind thinks that is not strict enough a condition for which to
> enforce this: what if you have a manuscript that actually has a blood
> pressure or a location in the sky (indicated with altitude and
> azimuth) in its incipit? Would it be reasonable to say within a
> <physDesc>?
> 
> 
> In any case, the important issue here is that it is a bad idea to
> hamstring the general purpose <measure> in order to make it better
> fit in with the special purpose <height>.
> 
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