[tei-council] Wot is wrong with my ODD?

[Lou Burnard]

On 06/06/14 22:18, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I'm trying to create a content model for <seg> using the new TEI ODD
> elements. I want to allow any of a small number of elements, with text
> mixed in, or just text. I have this:
>
> <elementSpec ident="seg" mode="change">
>     <content>
>       <alternate allowText="true">
>         <macroRef key="data.text"/>
>         <sequence allowText="true" preserveOrder="false" minOccurs="0">
>           <elementRef key="orgName" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
>           <elementRef key="persName" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
>           <elementRef key="choice" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
>           <elementRef key="seg" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
>           <elementRef key="trait" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
>         </sequence>
>       </alternate>
>     </content>
> </elementSpec>

I would represent what I think you want (but I may be completely 
misunderstanding it...)  much more simply  :

<elementSpec ident="seg" mode="change">
    <content>
      <sequence allowText="true" preserveOrder="false">
          <elementRef key="orgName" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
          <elementRef key="persName" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
          <elementRef key="choice" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
          <elementRef key="seg" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
          <elementRef key="trait" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
      </sequence>
    </content>
</elementSpec>


However, that doesn't seem to work as it should. There was a bug in the 
stylesheets in the handling of @allowText which I thought Sebastian had 
fixed. But maybe he hasn't allowed for this attribute to appear on 
<sequence>.

I don't think the macroRef does what you want -- it inserts a reference 
to data.text, not text.