[tei-council] invalid examples allowed in Guidelines?
Lou Burnard
lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jan 11 10:47:34 EST 2011
On 11/01/11 15:39, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> I worry a lot that the CDATA route is the slippery downhill one
> which leads us back to the slough we have dragged ourselves from.
> We really do want a check that<entry> is an allowed child of<div>,
> and is not spolt<Entry> and is well-formed. The CDATA method
> loses more than it gains.
well, maybe. I agree that it is a method that needs to be used very
carefully certainly.
> I think we need some other notation to express your ticks, to let you say
> "entries occur inside divs" and have that shown graphically to the reader.
I agree that we need some way of saying <!-- any valid content here -->
I don't agree that providing (but hiding) some specific valid content is
the right answer. That seems just to dodge the issue.
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