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

[David Sewell]

I would agree.

When we come back to this discussion, we may find that there are other
possible options. For example, we might want to make available an
explicitly non-TEI-conformant schema that would allow <text> as a root
element, to address the particular case where one wishes to encode a
document provisionally without creating a TEI header. (I'm not
necessarily advocating this, just suggesting it as an alternative to
stripping more required elements from teiHeader.)

David

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Laurent Romary wrote:

> I had this in mind when asking the question in the context of TEI
> bare. It was just a good opportunity of expression my frustration at
> keeping producing TEI documents where part of the header would consist
> of:
> <pubStmt><p>...<p></pubStmt> just to make sure that the thing would
> parse.
> I suggest the following:
> - simplify TEI bare in accordance with the simple and obvious  parts
> of the proposal I made
> - keep room in the next F2F for a debate on optionalities in the
> header, since I think it's an important debate
> Cheers,
> Laurent
>
> Le 8 déc. 08 à 12:59, James Cummings a écrit :
>
> > Arianna Ciula wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> James Cummings wrote:
> >>
> >>> However, I don't really care that much, but perhaps a
> >>> representative of
> >>> the TEI Library community might have some thoughts on this?
> >>
> >> I agree with your points James and wouldn't like to see <sourceDesc>
> >> disappear from TEI Bare...but then I am not a librarian.
> >
> > Well, librarians may or may not care about making it optional. I don't
> > really know. My only concern has been that I don't want us to make
> > such
> > a drastic change hastily. ;-)
> >
> > Best,
> > -James
> >
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> > Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
> > James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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