[tei-council] encodingDesc content

[Dan O'Donnell]

I'm a fan of the prose change too. The cost of the alternative is too high!

Laurent Romary wrote:
> +1 (changing the prose). Given the multiplicity of objects we have in  
> model.encodingPart, it makes sense to put prose explanation here and  
> there to justify the actual encoding choices. I would not follow SYd's  
> suggestion here to put all the prose at the back.
>
> Le 25 mai 09 à 10:07, Peter Boot a écrit :
>
>   
>> Lou Burnard schreef:
>>     
>>> " Section 2.3 says, "The encoding description may contain paragraphs
>>> of text, marked up using the p element, or it may contain more
>>> specialised elements taken from the model.encodingPart class." This
>>> doesn't match the content model: ( model.encodingPart | model.pLike
>>> )+"
>>>       
>> I wasn't there when the decisions about P5 were taken, but I'd say  
>> that
>> if for some reason it's not possible to use a fully structured
>> description, it is still preferable to use the specialized elements as
>> far as possible. I'd rather change the prose therefore.
>>
>> A refinement was suggested by Syd
>> (http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0709&L=TEI-L&P=R2975 
>> )
>>
>>     
>>> element encodingDesc { att.global.attributes, (
>>> model.encodingPart_sequenceOptionalRepeatable, model.pLike* ) }
>>>       
>> Peter
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