[tei-council] Tite and conformance (long)

[David Sewell]

Just one comment on the TEI Header issue. Given a strong enough 
statement to the effect that a TEI Tite document is intended for initial 
keyboard capture and is in a non-archival, nonconformant TEI format 
where post-processing is expected, I don't think it is horrible that 
<text> is permitted as a root element.

If <teiHeader> is required, nothing will stop users of Tite from 
supplying the barest minimum header necessary for validation at the 
keyboarding stage. (I plead guilty to having done this myself when 
sending material out for keyboarding.)

There is little to choose between a document with no TEI Header and one 
with a valid but incomplete <teiHeader> element. Both need to be 
expanded to be useful for archival and interchange purposes. So I am not 
inclined to revisit the decision about the header in Tite.

-- 
David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager
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