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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 6 Jun 2014, at 23:18, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> 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 am not convinced that what you want is legal in XML

> 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>
> 

you can’t have a content model in which the elements occur in a fixed order, with optional spaces
between. not as I understand XML. 

you also can’t have a choice between “text” or “text with elements”. doesn’t make sense.

are you trying to constrain the order of elements or not?

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