Re: [tei-council] did we really mean multi-<text>?

16 Aug 2017


      Hrrmm.  This does seem wrong to me but according to the ticket seems to be
precisely the change that was intended. i.e. that you can have any of the
model.resourceLike class of any number in any order.  I can't picture us
looking at that proposed change to the content model and thinking something
else.

-James


On 16 August 2017 at 11:19, Peter Stadler  wrote:
...
Yes, I tend to say that this (multiple text elements) feels like an error
that slipped through.
But I wonder why no-one has foreseen this consequence when implementing
561?! Or maybe it’s been on someones hidden agenda?
Cheers
Peter
...
Am 16.08.2017 um 01:20 schrieb Syd Bauman :
The change instantiated as a result of TEI issue 561 means (if you
summarily ignore all the other things in model.resourceLike) that
 TEI = ( teiHeader, \text+ )
That strikes me as a bad idea. I'll bet there is lots of code in the
world that presumes that a <TEI> has at most one child <text>. (I
know I have some programs that assume that.)
Furthermore, the prose of DS still says
A full TEI document combines metadata ... with the document
  itself, represented by either a text element or one or more other
  elements taken from the mode.resourceLike class, or the two in
  combination.               ^
                             |
                             + [sic]
which implies a single <text> element, until you realize that <text>
is now a member of model.resourceLike, and then you are a bit
confused. And the description of <TEI> says
contains ... a single TEI header, a single text, one or more
  members of the model.resourceLike class, or a combination of
  these.
which explicitly states one and only one <text>, but then allows one
or more member of model.resourceLike.
I do not think we intended to permit
 <TEI>
   <teiHeader><!-- ... --></teiHeader>
   <text><!-- ... --></text>
   <text><!-- ... --></text>
   <text><!-- ... --></text>
 </TEI>
when we did this, let alone
 <TEI>
   <teiHeader><!-- ... --></teiHeader>
   <facsimile><!-- ... --></facsimile>
   <text><!-- ... --></text>
   <facsimile><!-- ... --></facsimile>
   <text><!-- ... --></text>
   <facsimile><!-- ... --></facsimile>
   <text><!-- ... --></text>
 </TEI>
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Re: [tei-council] did we really mean multi-<text>?

James Cummings