[tei-council] xml-model processing instruction

[James Cummings]

Likewise (as the original requestor), this seems good to me.

-James

On 27/04/12 13:32, Piotr Bański wrote:
> Thumbs up from me.
>
>    P.
>
> On 27/04/12 14:30, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> In Michigan we agreed (on ticket<http://purl.org/TEI/FR/1650195>) that
>> we'd add a recommendation that people use the W3C standard xml-model
>> processing instruction to link both regular schemas and ODD files into
>> their XML documents, but we didn't say exactly where we'd put that
>> recommendation.
>>
>> The obvious place is this section of the Gentle Introduction:
>>
>> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/job/TEIP5-Documentation/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Guidelines-web/en/html/SG.html#SG-assoc>
>>
>> which is currently slightly misleading: "In RELAX NG therefore no
>> facility for associating a particular schema with a particular instance
>> exists...". Although this is technically true, xml-model is now a
>> standard method (although defined outside of RELAX NG).
>>
>> I think it might also be addressed in Chapter 22 Documentation Elements
>> too -- what do you think about adding a new section like this:
>>
>>       22.1 Phrase Level Documentary Elements
>>       22.2 Modules and Schemas
>>       22.3 Specification Elements
>>       22.4 Common Elements
>>       22.5 Building a Schema
>>       22.6 Combining TEI and Non-TEI Modules
>>   >>   22.7 Linking Schemas to XML Documents
>>       22.8 Module for Documention Elements
>>
>> The difference between the two explanations, I think, would be that the
>> Gentle Introduction one should focus mainly on linking schemas into your
>> documents, whereas the Ch 22 section should also give some detail on
>> linking ODD files by the same mechanism, and should also point at the
>> new section in the Header chapter on including a<schemaSpec>  in your
>> <encodingDesc>, to give a comprehensive overview of all the ways your
>> document can be linked to its XML model.
>>
>> Any disagreement on this, before I proceed?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>


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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
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