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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 6 Oct 2014, at 13:43, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:

> I'm still not really clear on why we need <mixedContent> if we have 
> <textNode>. Isn't it rather a complication? Isn't <mixedContent> just 
> shorthand for a content model where text nodes are freely interleaved 
> with other elements?

Precisely. it adds in the choice/alternate and text node for you
as a shorthand for a common situation. thats the argument in favour.

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