[tei-council] CDATA islands in <egXML>

[Martin Holmes]

I'm looking at removing as many CDATA islands as possible from <egXML> 
blocks. In the MS chapter, there are examples of intentionally invalid 
TEI XML presented like this:

[quote]

...neither of the following is valid:
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"><![CDATA[
<physDesc>
<objectDesc form="codex">
<!-- ... -->
</objectDesc>
<p>Generic descriptive prose...</p>
</physDesc>]]></egXML>
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"><![CDATA[
<physDesc>
<objectDesc form="codex">
   <!-- ... -->
</objectDesc>
<p>Generic descriptive prose...</p>
<!-- other specific elements here -->
</physDesc>]]></egXML>

[/quote]

I would have thought that instead of using CDATA to protect the code 
from validation tests, @valid="false" could be used on <egXML>. Am I wrong?

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)