[tei-council] problem with Roma or the sanity checker

Arianna Ciula arianna.ciula at kcl.ac.uk
Wed Feb 20 10:38:16 EST 2008



Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>> Then I tried to generate the 'TEI Absolutely Bare' Schema.
> TEI Bare is not intended as a useable schema, more
> as a basis on which to build, so it is not surprising that
> it has sanity errors.
>> Then I included all elements of the TEI Absolutely Bare Schema modules
>> and I get the warnings "teiCorpus is not reachable from root" and
>> "handNote is not reachable from root".
> Indeed. These statements are both unfortunately true
> with just the basic modules loaded. This is because
> a) the principle of model classes has not been extended to the
> very root element of the TEI schema, so teiCorpus is Magic,
> and b) <handNote> is wanted by two different modules, and
> has therefore been put in the core - with the side effect that
> without either module, it is orphaned.
> 
> Bear in mind that that these are not formal errors, so
> you don't _have_ to fix them.

I think it may be useful to have a page accessible from the Roma 
interface that gives notes on this sort of errors that aren't really 
errors. Os is it there somewhere and I just don't know?

Arianna
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