[tei-council] content model for <attDef>

[Lou Burnard]

On 29/04/12 13:03, Piotr Bański wrote:


> I may be misunderstanding, but what is wrong with defining the datatype
> for an attribute and then pre-selecting a proper subset of possible
> values with that datatype?
>

Nothing at all. And you can certainly do that in ODD. But I don't know 
whether Sebastian's current code will check that when both datatype and 
valList are present, they are mutually compatible. Not hard to find out 
though!


>
> I understand that it didn't work that way in DTDs, where one could
> either state the datatype or enumerate the values without a datatype,
> but with more elaborate schema languages, it surely is possible to
> enumerate within a datatype, is it not?

I think this rather depends on the schema language.