[tei-council] Legal references to a customisation

Dan O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at uleth.ca
Mon Dec 7 17:26:30 EST 2009


Ooh dear: this does raise some interesting problems; especially if you 
anticipate changes in the document anyway over the life of the 
contract--i.e. that you don't want to force yourself to use a single 
schema for three years, but do want to have an agreed-upon canonical 
version that changes are flagged on. I'll have to think about that.

-dan

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Hmm. the same ODD will generate a different schema today from what it would have generated in May.  So it _is_ ambiguous. The compiled form is safer, therefore.
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> The ODD cannot specify the TEI version it is based on, remember (though arguably it should one day).
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