[tei-council] Fwd: Further purification

[James Cummings]

On 26/01/14 07:22, Lou Burnard wrote:
>
> This proposal didn't make it into the last release for plausible
> reasons. However it was warmly received for the most part, so I've now
> added a FR at https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/494/ which
> I hope we can agree to act on fairly soon.

I agree with the proposed changes below.  I'd definitely use that.

-James


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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Further purification
> Date: 	Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:56:48 +0000
> From: 	Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
> To: 	<tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
> <tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
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> Thinking about pure ODD, it occurs to me that it would be very useful if
> one could treat <classRef>s in the same way as <moduleRef>s -- i.e. by
> adding the attributes @include and @exclude to <classRef> it would be
> possible inside an elementSpec to do things like
>
> (a) <classRef key="att.global" except="att.linking"/>
>
> as a short way of suppressing a bunch of attributes
>
> or
>
> (b) <classRef key="att.linking" include="next prev corresp"/>
>
> as a neat way of saying which attributes I do want.
>
> Similarly, for model classes, it would be really nice to be able to say
> inside a content model something like
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> (c)  <classRef key="model.choiceLike" except="seg"/>
>
> which would not interfere with seg appearing elsewhere in a content
> model, but would suppress it from inside <choice> in a tidy way.
>
> Anyone object to my adding these two attributes as part of the pure ODD
> work?
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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford