[tei-council] a proposal for a change to ODD (copy of ticket I just put in SF)

[O'Donnell, Dan]

I'm only coming to this late due to a family emergency, but I'd love 
this too, if I'm understanding it: we were just discussing this problem 
with Perry and Apex in relation to AccessTEI. Would it be possible to 
build in a way of handling examples as well? Another problem we've run 
into is that you can end up with inappropriate examples after all the 
deletions.

-dan

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> [from a discussion with Lou and James earlier today]
>
> Currently, we say things in an ODD like
>
>   <moduleRef key="figures"/>
>   <elementSpec ident="table" mode="delete"/>
>
> which works fine to get the subset of elements we want. But that has the side effect that when the TEI adds <foo> to the module,
> it pops up when we next compile our ODD, and our schema has changed. We need a way to  say exactly what we _do_ want, not
> what we _don't_ want.
>
> I therefore propose 3 new elements, <elementRef>, <classRef> and <macroRef>, which have same attributes as <moduleRef>,
> and dictate which elements are to be appear in the output schema. No other elements can creep in in future. Similarly, I explicitly
> say what attribute classes I want (I am not quite so sure about macros), apart from att.global. The result is much less likelihood of
> surprises at future releases. New attributes _will_ pop up sometimes, but I think that's bearable.
>
> Yes, its may be a pig to implement, but I claim the semantics are fairly clear.
>
> As an alternative, if you dont like <*Ref>, we could add an attribute "copyOf" to <*Spec>, with the
> same effect.
>
> I believe that there is real demand for this (Tite is an excellent example
> of a project which badly needs no surprises at TEI version changes),
> that it is doable, and that it does not mean a rethink of ODD.
>
>
> (it would help to discuss this in public on the SF ticket:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2962880&group_id=106328&atid=644065)
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