[tei-council] <content> vs <mixedContent>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 3 Oct 2014, at 16:36, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> We invented this element precisely because it has a different content model from <content> -- mixed content is always exactly the same as an alternation of a bunch of elements with text. So it would be nonsensical to permit it to contain sequence, and redundant to permit alternate.

Clearly I have been in some parallel universe for the last 6 months :-}

if mixedContent is solely,  in your definition

    <content>
       <rng:oneOrMore>
    	    <rng:ref name="elementRef"/>
        </rng:oneOrMore>
     </content>  

then it is incomplete, as it must contain classRef too. But leaving that aside, 
this is shorthand for:

  <alternate maxOccurs=“unbounded” minOccurs=“0”>
	<textNode/>
	   … refs…
  </alternate>

and, in the cold light of dawn etc, it seems to me an over complication 

Honestly, I don’t any longer think its worth the trouble.
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