[tei-council] hands=

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:
> I'm kind of fond of the "3+" solution, although the parallelism of
> minHands= and maxHands= isn't lost on me, either. But to throw another
> approach into the pile, why not:
>
>     <attDef ident="hand">
>       <desc>...</desc>
>       <datatype minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
>         <choice xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0">
>           <ref name="data.count"/>
>           <ref name="data.enumerated"/>
>         </choice>
>       </datatype
Pragmatically, the quickest solution, I agree. It's a slight pain
for implementors, if anyone ever writes  a system which
lets you say "show me all MSS with 3 or more hands", of course.

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