[tei-council] let's sort out the <w> problem first...

[David Sewell]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Lou Burnard wrote:

> I think it might be better to partition model.segLike into those which
> can reasonably be expected within a word (<m> and (possibly) <c>) and
> those which cannot (<cl>, <phr>), I'm unsure about <seg>.

If one were using TEI to mark up text in an agglutinative language,
wouldn't there be cases where <phr> and possibly even <cl> could
legitimately appear within a <w> tag? Maybe this is one of those cases
where we need to provide maximum flexibility in content models even if
it allows for valid but nonsensical tagging? (Seems to me that anyone
who is serious enough to want to use the linguistic segmentation tags
will likely be capable of analyzing and tagging grammatical structure as
needed.)

David

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