[tei-council] @predeclare

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 23 May 2012, at 20:46, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:

> 
> If I understand the situation correctly, this is a case of breaking
> cyclical dependencies.
> 
> The classic computer science approach is to pre-declare everything,
> would that work here? It would increase the size of the DTD and but
> remove a level of reasoning and a level of complexity from the ODD.

there is no difference between everything predeclared and nothing
predeclared, if they all group together. :-}

why would the size of the DTD change? but i think you may have
over-expectations of the word "predeclare" here - it just means
where the definition is placed.

Sebastian