[tei-council] description of @type's data values

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 3 Jan 2013, at 14:59, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> On 03/01/13 14:54, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> there's some interesting observations by the indefatigable John M at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=644062&aid=3599062&group_id=106328
>> which needs some loving care. Anyone feel like a go at it?
> 
> Happy to have a crack at these. Actually, there is an outstanding ticket 
> somewhere (I think; or it may just be a council action) to check on all 
> <valDesc>s. Although most of them are  deeply suspicious we left them 
> untouched because some of them express constraints that could or should 
> be schematronized


yes, nothing wrong with the use of <valDesc> per se, the concern is where
the description is not consonant with data.enumerated. its language like
"word or phrase" which jumps out at the reader.
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