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

[Martin Holmes]

I've been trying to follow this discussion, but struggling a bit, partly 
due to time but also surely due to ignorance and dimwittedness. For the 
benefit of me and others like me, could I ask that the two of you put 
together a simple comparison of the two (if it is only two) sides of the 
discussion? I think the heart of the debate is:

  - Do we have <mixedContent> alongside <content>, making that the 
method by which text nodes are allowed within a content model; or

  - Do we use <content allowText="true"> for the same effect; or

  - Do we have a sort of object representing a text node, analogous to a 
reference to an element, which is explicitly positioned within 
<content>; and

  - Do we really know what we mean by a "text node" anyway?

Is that a fair summary? I'd like to get away from arguing about what we 
might have decided at a previous meeting, because I suspect that we 
hadn't really considered all the implications of any of this when we 
made the previous decision(s); if we're finding things are more 
complicated than we thought, we should definitely not be tied by a 
previous decision.

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-10-05 11:52 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 5 Oct 2014, at 19:04, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> You can't argue against magic and then complain because mixedContent as proposed and twice agreed to by the council is not magical enough. It does what it does.
>
> Ok, fair point. if you can write an unambiguous description of what it does, it can be implemented. So far, its description
> says "containing textual nodes”, which I don’t think is unambiguous enough to code against…..
>
> I assume we won’t use <mixedContent> in the source of the Guidelines? in which case the implementation
> can stay theoretical for a bit anyway. Maybe it should be Exercise 2 in my ongoing challenge of “learn to hack
> the TEI ODD stylesheets”….
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