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[Arianna Ciula]

I think it's much better.

Arianna

Lou Burnard wrote:
> Arianna Ciula wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I have now, finally, amplified this passage a bit. I hope I've made it a 
> bit clearer.

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