[tei-council] Questions regarding HD-The TEI Header

[Christian Wittern]

Council members,

While working on my assignments for the new chapter triage, I came across
the following questions:

* Examples showing the teiHeader structure:

<teiHeader>
  <fileDesc>
   <titleStmt/>
   <publicationStmt/>
   <sourceDesc/>
  </fileDesc>
 </teiHeader>

These are looking as if they would be valid as empty elements.  I wonder if
it wouldn't be better to show them as

<teiHeader>
  <fileDesc>
   <titleStmt>... </titleStmt>
   <publicationStmt>...</publicationStmt>
   <sourceDesc>... </sourceDesc>
  </fileDesc>
 </teiHeader>

to enforce the point that they do not by itself form a valid TEI file.


* model.sourceDescPart:

There seem to be five different models for sourceDescPart:

model.sourceDescPart = scriptStmt | recordingStmt

model.sourceDescPart_sequence = scriptStmt, recordingStmt

model.sourceDescPart_sequenceOptional = scriptStmt?, recordingStmt?

model.sourceDescPart_sequenceOptionalRepeatable = scriptStmt*, recordingStmt*

model.sourceDescPart_sequenceRepeatable = scriptStmt+, recordingStmt+

(similar models are also defined for encodingDesc)
under what conditions are which models activated?

Christian

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 Christian Wittern
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN