[tei-council] Further purification

[Martin Holmes]

On 14-02-05 06:29 PM, Syd Bauman wrote:
> The same (probably true) observation makes me think we should make an
> effort to use it consistently. :-)
>
> I won't put up a big hissy fit about keeping (after all, we *can* get
> the same expressive power from Schematron), but I think org=choice a
> powerful ODD construct we should keep. Furthermore, if we allowed
> @usage on <attList>, we would have the capability to express "one of
> these attributes is required", which seems useful.
>
>> prompts me to wonder whether we should remove that structure from
>> ODD anyway, and push the problem back to Schematron. we don’t use
>> it consistently.

I'd rather like to adopt the principle that we only fall back to 
Schematron if we can't do what we want to do in the regular schema. The 
main reason for this is that I have almost never seen people validate 
their TEI files with the embedded Schematron (except in my own 
projects). I suspect the vast majority of the TEI-using population don't 
even know the Schematron is there.

Cheers,
Martin