[tei-council] rowing back on <mixedContent>

[Lou Burnard]

On 04/07/14 20:25, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> if a TEI element says its content model is
>
>    model.someThing, model,someThingElse+
>
> and model.someThing has no members, should that
> flag an error?

Interesting. Does model.someThing still exist if all of its members have 
been deleted? If we think it does (as an idea in the mind of James Clark 
or something) then the content model above is equivalent to "nothing" 
followed by model etc.  Which is presumably feasible. If however we 
think that a model class has no existence apart from its members, then 
deleting all of its members is tantamount to deleting the class. In 
which case the content model should fail because it requires something 
that doesn't exist.