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

[Martin Holmes]

On 14-06-08 02:46 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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> On 7 Jun 2014, at 22:33, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
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>> I must have explained it wrong. It's a mixed-content element with any of a set of subelements and/or text in between them. Surely that's what tei:p is?
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> yes, thats fine. its, in that case, much simpler than you thought
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>> I don't want them in a fixed order. I said @preserveOrder="false" -- isn't that what @preserveOrder is for?
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> a) @preserveOrder is only allowed on <sequence>, so your ODD is invalid anyway :-}

I had it on <sequence>:

<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>

> b) @preserveOrder is ignored in all current processing

That would be a problem.

> c) Lou: whats the difference between <sequence preserveOrder=“false”>, and <alternate>? i dont think preserveOrder makes much sense

It seemed to make good sense to me; I liked it. But if it's confusing, 
then we need to supplement <alternate> and <sequence> with something 
else which is neither of those things -- maybe <grabBag> or <anyOf>?

Cheers,
Martin

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> Sebastian Rahtz
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