[tei-council] @xml:space, whitespace and http://purl.org/tei/bug/3600991

[James Cummings]

On 16/01/13 20:49, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 16/01/13 13:57, James Cummings wrote:
>> Some of the confusion, I think, might revolve around the
>> dichotomy (which TEI exposes as false) between a simplistic view
>> of an element's content as 'structured' or 'mixed content'.  The
>> TEI allows the same element to act as both and <persName> is
>> indeed a good example of this.
>
> What?! The TEI does no such thing! You may choose to pretend that your
> <persName> doesn't have mixed content but You Are Wrong! You may
> redefine its content model so that text nodes are no longer permitted
> directly within it -- but that's a modification. This is not a false
> dichotomy: it's one we have seen before -- compare <bibl> and
> <biblStruct> for example.

Yes, Sebastian has already pointed out my error in thinking here. 
Really what I meant is that *I* often use <persName> as if it is 
'structured' and not mixed-content.

-James
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