[tei-council] <foliation> in MS

[James Cummings]

Laurent Romary wrote:
> I think we do need a feature request entry in any case.
> Oxford?
> Laurent

I'm happy to enter this, but should it be a feature request or a bug report?

Just wanted to check,

-James

> 
> Le 3 juil. 08 à 15:44, James Cummings a écrit :
> 
>> David Sewell wrote:
>>> it is clear that there *should* be more than one <foliation> in some
>>> cases, so that at least needs to be reflected in the content model of
>>> <supportDesc>.  So I'd vote to change.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd really quite like to make <foliation> repeatable, as that
>>>> seems to be the intention of the prose about it. Does the Council
>>>> authorize such a last-minute change?
>>
>> I'd also agree that this should be repeatable.
>>
>> I'd also want to suggest that we re-examine the issue of how strict some
>> of the content models are in the msDesc model at some point in the
>> future.  It isn't that I don't think that this is useful, but some of
>> them (as with foliation) have the real potential to be repeatable.  This
>> seems to be exactly the kind of situation where there is a customisation
>> use-case.  Let's pretend that all of the supportDesc children (erm,
>> support, extent, collation, condition, and of course foliation... from
>> memory) were repeatable and allowable in any order.  A good example
>> customisation might be to specify some of these not to be repeatable,
>> and to only allow them in a specific order.  (i.e. to recreate what the
>> TEI currently has.)
>>
>> But for now, just allowing foliation to be repeatable I can see as a
>> corrigible bug since, as David points out, the prose seems to indicate
>> it should be.
>>
>> -James
>>
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