[tei-council] Making absolutely bare a little more bare

[David Sewell]

I would also be in favor of this. There are often cases where for
teaching or testing purposes one wants to construct a valid TEI document
instance with minimal header information.

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Laurent Romary wrote:

> As a matter of fact, if the TEI content model would permit it (but it
> does not at present) I would also drop publicationStmt and sourceDesc,
> so that I could actually have a very focused pedagogical tool to
> demonstrate valid examples such as the one below. But are we just
> ready to make publicationStmt and sourceDesc ... well, euh, optional?
>
> Le 5 déc. 08 à 11:17, Lou Burnard a écrit :
>
> > I think these "survivors" come from two sources:
> >
> > (a) elements introduced after the ODD spec was written (e.g.
> > postscript) won't
> > have been deleted from the spec. This is one of the interesting
> > consequences of
> > the way ODD works...
> > (b) at one point in time, the view was that you should not permit
> > customisation
> > of the TEI header.
> >
> > I entirely agree with Laurent that a really bare teibare would be
> > useful.
> > I am quite tempted by the idea that it might not even require a
> > Header, but that
> > may be a step too far.
> >
> >
> > message <176C96B9-6BE3-448A-A369-BE5D6BAADF63 at loria.fr> Laurent Romary
> > <laurent.romary at loria.fr> writes:
> >> I did. And doing so discovered a few other candidates for deletion.
> >> So
> >> the victims so far are:
> >> <editionStmt>, <extent>, <seriesStmt>, <postcript>, <biblFull>,
> >> <notesStmt>, <typeNote>, <postcript>
> >>
> >> I am still wondering why we managed to keep all these...
> >>
> >> Le 4 déc. 08 à 14:26, Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :
> >>
> >>> Looks fine by me. Have you tested whether it works
> >>> without them? possibly some hard-wired dependency
> >>> which is why we left them in? (if so, we should track those
> >>> down)
> >>>
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