[tei-council] multi-valued closed lists

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:
> This depends on the declared datatype for the attribute, shirley?
>
> If it's #NMTOKENS for example, my belief (and Jean-Daniel agrees) is that
> rend="A B" is the same as rend = "B        A". Or at least that no application
> is *required* to preserve the order, just as every application is entitled to
> normalize the whitespace.
>
> Neither of us has checked the specs of course...
>
> If it's a declared datatype is cdata of course, that's different.
>   
whats this DTD talk, Cyrano?

the data type is <rng:list><rng:zeroOrMore><rng:choose> ....

murky waters, as ever when you mix and match tainted
and untainted XML

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