[tei-council] Looking ahead

Dan O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at uleth.ca
Fri Nov 16 16:21:10 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-16-11 at 20:53 +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Apropos of the future, I have been corresponding with folks
> working on some putative standard called TBX, involving ISO TC 37;
> it doesn't really matter what it is, but they have (somewhat
> gingerly) picked up ODD to write their spec in.
> 
> I will assist them as much as I can, obviously, but today
> they raise a point to consider, about modelling
> co-occurrence constraints in ODD ("this element can
> only have value X if attribute Y has value Z"). I am
> wondering on what timescale, and how, to revisit ODD
> with a view to making a 3rd generation version of the language
> in which we could consider such things.

Did something like this not also come up in the last minute dash to
completion or at the meeting?

> 
> Does the idea horrify or excite you all?
> 
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