[tei-council] [Fwd: META: rethinking usage= of <elementSpec>]

[Laurent Romary]

Dear all,
If I remember well the origins of ODD, this attribute was put on  
elementSpec in case we would want to impose that a given element be  
used only with the corresponding occurance indicator. I think it was  
clear that it would be good to have this feature in a systemic  
understand of the expressive power of odd, but it may actually be rare  
to see this applied (and it is not even implemented as such in Roma as  
a possible constraint).
My intuition would be to document this possibility, indicate that it  
is not implemented (if I am right) and rare, but would not like it be  
dropped just because of its rarity.
Cheers,
Laurent

Le 8 sept. 08 à 17:10, David Sewell a écrit :

> Sebastian,
>
> Just to clarify: we're talking here only about eliminating @usage from
> <elementSpec>, retaining it for <attDef>?
>
> Makes sense to me. Probably rarely used by anyone. However, in
> P5/Exemplars there are two files in which elementSpec[@usage] occurs:
> tei_allPlus.odd and tei_odds.odd [only in 1 place each], so validation
> will break if the attribute is removed from the schema until those  
> files
> are updated.
>
> David
>
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
>> I really can't see any reason to disagree with Syd. That attribute
>> looks entirely redundant. Its certainly not used.
>>
>>
>
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