[tei-council] rowing back on <mixedContent>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 4 Jul 2014, at 20:12, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>> sure. and they can shoot themselves in the foot now, using Roma, and
>> make an invalid DTD. It is not hard at all.
> 
> But that's not a good situation. We should have a plan to get away from it.

er, yes. I don’t have one to hand, I am afraid.

> My point is that we shouldn't be designing Pure ODD (which is what
> you're doing) on the basis that it has to take account of the
> limitations of DTDs.  If Pure ODD can be simpler and easier to
> understand if we don't think about DTDs, then why not use this as an
> opportunity to move beyond them?
sure. you’re agreeing with me, then, that we should eschew <mixedContent>
and go straight to Pure ODD in all its raging glory and not worry about
whether you can DTDize it

>> 
>> sure. no change there. and its very very hard to guarantee --
> 
> But much easier with DTDs out of the picture. Just sayin.
> 
not much but slightly, yes.

writing an deterministic content model using TEI’s very lax
content is far from easy.

… P6 … drop all schemas.. drone….allow everything everywhere…. express constraints
in schematron… drone....
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