[tei-council] constraint prose WINITA

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Sat Jan 4 12:31:37 EST 2014


I'm also supposed to be adding documentation and an example for <attRef> 
to that chapter. I'll hold off until you've both finished your work.

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-01-04 09:15 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 04/01/14 14:50, Syd Bauman wrote:
>> he prose of <ref target="#TDTAGCONS">22.4.4.3 Additional
>> constraints</> needs some work. Mostly it says <gi>constraint</>
>> when it means <gi>constraintSpec</>. But also, e.g. "outside the
>> scope of conventional schema languages" asserts that rule-based
>> schema languages are not conventional, which their more ardent
>> adherents might wage war over.
>
> I've revised that section quite a bit: will check it in later tonight so
> you can see if you think it's improving.
>
>> Also, the 2 examples of non-Schematron <constraint>s are in the
>> tagdocs for <constraint> and <constraintSpec>, and for the former it
>> is the only example. Certainly the tagdoc for <constraint> should
>> show Schematron constraints. But shouldn't the main prose demonstrate
>> non-Schematron constraints?
>
> Even more surprisingly, imo, the main text doesn't even explain what the
> dickens this "schematron" thing is -- no mention of e.g. ISO/IEC
> 19757-3:2006
> Information technology -- Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) --
> Part 3: Rule-based validation -- Schematron anywhere that I can see.
>
>


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