[tei-council] model.headerPart query

[Lou Burnard]

Yes, this is indeed the case, as Sebastian reminded me yesterday. But 
it's not clear why the members of model.headerPart (encodingDesc and 
profileDesc) *should* be allowed to repeat. Their components can 
meaningfully repeat, but they are just containers. It would be better, 
imho, to change the content model of teiHeader
from
   fileDesc, model.headerPart*, revisionDesc
to
   fileDesc, model.headerPart_sequenceOptionalRepeatable
(having added revisionDesc to the headerPart class)

This would have two downsides:
- breaks things for anyone who has already constructed a header with 
multiple headerPart elements (but maybe that serves them right)
- means that any new headerPart elements will have to follow the 
existing ones, so you can't rely on the revisionDesc being the last 
thing in the header (are we bovvered?)

For the moment, I'm leaving this stone unturned though.


Arianna Ciula wrote:
> 
> 
> Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Can anyone remember why revisionDesc is not a member of 
>> model.headerPart, or suggest a good reason why it should not be ?
>>
>> I certainly cannot!
> 
> may be because the description of 'model.headerPart' says 'groups high 
> level elements which may appear more than once in a TEI Header', while, 
> in theory, revisionDesc can occur only once.
> 
> Arianna
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