Re: [tei-council] Three kinds of data ref

24 Jun 2015

      On 22/06/15 19:07, Martin Holmes wrote:
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It all depends on what we mean by a datatype. What does TEI mean by
"datatype"?
We mean (informally speaking) an abstraction which defines the set of
possible values for some attribute or attributes. Or so I believe.
So we're never going to constrain element content based on datatypes?
This is an interesting question. Here is what I know so far:

1., Yes, syntactically at least, you can certainly say

<content></content>

2. So it ought to be possible equivalently in pure ODD to say

<content><dataRef key="data.count"/></content>
or indeed
<content><dataRef name="anyURI"/></content>

3. BUT this will not currently generate a valid DTD (you may not care, 
but some folks do...)

4.  And moreover

<content><oneOrMore><dataRef key="data.foo"/>

Re: [tei-council] Three kinds of data ref

Lou Burnard