[tei-council] Preparation for F2F meeting

[lou]

I would strongly recommend against attempting validation for P4 files. 
The TEI agreed to drop support for P4 years ago. The most you should do 
is attempt to upconvert such files to P5 and validate the result of that.

Looking at the root node isn't going to help a whole lot. If something 
has a root node of "TEI",  is in the TEI namespace, but doesn't validate 
against TEI_All ... sorry, it's just not a TEI document.


On 16/11/14 16:47, Peter Stadler wrote:
> Am 16.11.2014 um 11:37 schrieb Hugh Cayless <philomousos at gmail.com>:
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>> I worry a bit about a simple validation tool: what if someone checks a P4 document against it, for example? It might be perfectly valid P4, but come back as invalid. It seems to me that’s not very helpful…
> Yes, that’s a good point.
> I think we need something in between valid and invalid. (Maybe ‚conformable‘ ;)
> In my validation service I plan to implement various fallbacks. If a file is not valid against the current tei_all than try with 2.6.0, etc.
> Other schemas such as tite or P4 can easily detected by looking at the root node.
> If those files validate against the respective schema, I mark them ‚yellow‘ (and still lack a name for it).
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> In parts, it’s a political issue what to call ‚valid‘ but I think we should discuss it …
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> Best
> Peter
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