[tei-council] rowing back on <mixedContent>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 7 Jul 2014, at 02:30, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
> 
> The result would be a call for one or more elements from a choice of two 
> empty models. I believe that an ODD processor should be required in this 
> case to delete the models completely, resulting in an empty content 
> model for <availability>, which would make it an empty element (again, 
> not insane because it has @status which is enough to specify the 
> availability of a document).

or should an error be thrown, because you have gone against the wish of the
ODDer, who asked for oneOrMore elements?
> 
> I think the deletion of the empty model must be required, otherwise the 
> content model above would be completely non-deterministic; the empty 
> element could have been arrived at by any combination of the empty 
> models comprising its content model.

hmm, i dont think XSD or DTD care about "empty | empty”. its all a matter of
what element choices come out, which are in this case none

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