[tei-council] invalid examples allowed in Guidelines?

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Tue Jan 11 10:54:25 EST 2011


I'm on the same line as Seb there, I would definitely avoid using  
CDATA secitons for examples at large. It prevents any kinds of further  
processing (not even with a stylesheet).

Le 11 janv. 11 à 16:39, Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :

>
> On 11 Jan 2011, at 15:30, Lou Burnard wrote:
>
>> . They are not meant to be complete documents in
>> themselves, nor exemplary in any sense other than that of the point
>> being illustrated.
>
> agreed, they not are virtuous exemplars.
>>
>> Hence, I think this example is in the category of "deliberately
>> invalid schematick" and I would wrap it in a CDATA marked section
>> accordingly.
>
>
> Yes, this is a good example of a deliberately invalid schema tick,
> but 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.
>
> 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.
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