[tei-council] rowing back on <mixedContent>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 4 Jul 2014, at 21:01, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:

> Well I was suggesting one: we could deprecate DTDs and remove support 
> from them at the same time that we transition to Pure ODD. Then we 
> wouldn't have to worry about DTDs when thinking about how Pure ODD 
> should work.

and how does that stop Joe User making non-deterministic nonsense schemas?
> 
> That's a more important question, and something we should be thinking 
> about. Should Pure ODD attempt to constrain or warn about 
> non-deterministic content models?

damnably hard to catch them, as you have to untangle the macros and classes


> Pure ODD might for instance 
> allow a NDCM if you add @allowNonDeterministicModel="true", and if 
> that's not there, an ODD processor would attempt to detect and warn, 
> even if all you're creating is RelaxNG.
> 
thats not a bad idea, if one could imagine an implementation capable
of doing  it.

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