[tei-council] unknown item in the agenda

[Lou Burnard]

What he said.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Laurent Romary" <laurent.romary at loria.fr>
To: "Arianna Ciula" <arianna.ciula at kcl.ac.uk>
Cc: "TEI Council" <tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu>; "Lou Burnard" <lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Sent: 25/09/07 09:29
Subject: Re: [tei-council] unknown item in the agenda

Thank you Arianna!
Laurent

Le 25 sept. 07 à 15:28, Arianna Ciula a écrit :

> LB 	 Expand explanatory prose in USE concerning which elements are
> mandatory and how a user can know this.
>
> I think I remember what this is about now. I think at the previous
> conference call Laurent pointed out that where in this chapter you  
> say:
>
> "If however the element deleted by some modification is mandatory  
> within
> the content model of some other (undeleted) element, the result is an
> unclean modification because some documents that would be regarded as
> valid by the new schema would be regarded as invalid according to the
> original schema. If an element is defined as having some other  
> specific
> element as a mandatory child, removing that child would break the TEI
> abstract model (24.3.3 Conformance to the TEI Abstract Model), though
> the parent of a mandatory child can of course be removed safely if  
> it is
> itself optional."
>
> there is no way for a user to know which elements are mandatory in the
> prose of the chapters, so I think Lou had agreed to change the  
> sentence
> above a little bit. This is what I recollect.
>
> Arianna
> -- 
> Dr Arianna Ciula
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> Centre for Computing in the Humanities
> King's College London
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