[tei-council] rowing back on <mixedContent>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 4 Jul 2014, at 19:13, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 04/07/14 19:01, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> <alternate minOccurs="2" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <textNode/> <elementRef key="b"/> <elementRef key="c"/> </alternate> 
> 
> To satisfy this content model, an element must contain at least two nodes. I can have two <b>s, or two <c>s, but I can't have two text nodes, because that would be indistinguishable from one text node.
> 
> You can see why they invented @allowText.

but the model of 

 (x | y )* | ( text , b,  c)+

which allows PCDATA only if its before b, c, not with x or y.
is not unreasonable, and impossible with @allowText

o what joy.
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