[tei-council] outstanding issues in pure odd

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Fri Oct 3 06:07:07 EDT 2014


On 03/10/14 11:01, James Cummings wrote:
> Does an alternate with allowText="true" and one child mean that this 
> child is allowed to alternate with text?

yes. <alternate allowText="true"><elementRef key="foo"/></alternate> 
and  <alternate ><textNode><elementRef key="foo"/></alternate>

mean exactly the same thing. which is one reason for wondering whether 
we need @allowText

> I'm still a bit worried about the allowText attribute at all (both 
> name and function). 

kill it, is my view.




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