[tei-council] rowing back on <mixedContent>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 5 Jul 2014, at 16:53, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>  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.

It’s a philosophical conundrum we’d do well to have a final view on.
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Sebastian Rahtz      
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