[tei-council] wiki page on ODD: uses, future plans, and maybe history

[Laurent Romary]

I do share James' orientation indeed.
Laurent


Le 13 avr. 2011 à 17:28, James Cummings a écrit :

> On 13/04/11 08:34, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> It is news to me that the Council is contemplating abandoning ODD
> 
> I think it is more the case that we do not want to privilege ODD in our 
> discussion of what is needed for Son (or Daughter) of ODD. The point is 
> to consider what is needed and choose the best solution.  I would be 
> surprised, personally, if we did not decide to develop and extend ODD 
> rather than just using an existing schema language.  The meta-schema 
> language of ODD gives us a level of indirection which is beneficial (IMHO).
> 
> I added a link to the ODD-dev page on the wiki to this wiki page.
> 
> -James
> 
> 
>> because it "remains a hybrid environment combining its own vocabulary
>> with RelaxNG fragments and at times, validation vocabularies from
>> external languages (e.g. Schematron)". Add to that datatypes from XSD,
>> but I'm not sure that its being hybrid (exactly like RNG) and RNG-based
>> is an actual accusation -- why would we need to "extend its capabilities
>> to make it a self contained and generic specification language"? If
>> there are plans to abandon ODD, the answer to the above seems pretty
>> crucial. (The fact that RNG can combine with, a.o., XSD datatypes, and
>> that it can include Schematron is listed among its virtues, not vices,
>> to my knowledge.)
>> 
>>   P.
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Laurent Romary
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