[tei-council] A strong body is an undivided body?

Sun Feb 17 13:06:24 EST 2008

I find myself wondering if there is a good reason that the org= and
sample= attributes of att.divLike are not available on <body>.
Certainly if a division can be a sample or be composite in
organization, then so can a body.

For that matter, although I'm not 100% sure why the <div> elements
need to have the metrical attributes met=, real=, and rhyme=, if a
<div> needs them, seems to me <body> does too. (After all, what if in
my document there are no divisions, only the 1 poem?)

<body> probably should not have part=, though, as it's hard to
imagine what kind of structural overlap problem <body> can get
into. Of course, all it takes is 1 example -- anybody got one?

I'm interested in thoughts on the issue before I post a feature
request to Sourceforge.