[tei-council] Pure ODDness

[Lou Burnard]

As I proceed with implementing Pure ODD, inevitably a few 
obscurities/uncertainties surface. Advice from Council members would be 
much appreciated.

1. un-mixed content models

We decided to represent mixed content by means of an attribute @mixed on 
the relevant container element (<sequence> or <alternate>). But how do I 
represent a content model which in RelaxNG would be just plain old 
rng:text ?

The choices seem to be
a) also allow @mixed on <content> and say <content mixed="true"> (even 
though actually the content isn't mixed at all)
b) change the name of @mixed to something like @hasText, @allowsText, 
@textual  and go with option (a)
c) introduce a model.contentPart element called <pcdata> and say 
<content><pcdata></content> (or some better name)

Preferences? Alternatives?

2. co-existence

I think we agreed that the old and the new method of defining content 
should co-exist at least for the next release. How should that be done?

a) change the content model of <content> to permit either 
model.contentPart  or macro.schemaPattern
b) change macro.schemaPattern to permit either model.contentPart or 
macro.anyXML
c) define a new element (howabout <model>) containing model.contentPart 
; allow both that and current <content> initially, then deprecate <content>

Now that I've enumerated them, I think I know which options I prefer, 
but it would be good to see whether anyone agrees.