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

[Lou Burnard]

Syd Bauman wrote:
>> I am sorry, but none of your arguments convinces me Syd. You are
>> trying to complexify a very simple requirement quite needlessly.
>>     
>
> So you would just have <measureGrp> have its limited content model
> anywhere in an <msDesc>?
>
>   
I don't know what you mean by "limited content model". At present the 
content model for measureGrp is  (text|model.measureLike)*

It would be better if it were (text | (model.measureLike)+) but  as you 
know we're not allowed to do that in XML

> BTW, I consider this a tangent: I still think the important thing is
> to restore the general-purpose <measure> to its previous more useful
> state, regardless of what happens to the special-purpose uses in
> <msDesc>.
>
>   

These are not special purpose uses. For every one hypothetical person 
who might conceivably want to encode a measurement of blood pressure *as 
a measurement* (rather than just leave it in the text) there are 
countless others who want to record the dimensions of a manuscript. Why 
make life miserable for those users we know we have for the sake of the 
few you might like to imagine we might have?