Re: [tei-council] langUsage content model

I agree it’s very odd. It appears to have been that way as long as svn has history for the spec file. See https://github.com/TEIC/Guidelines-TEST/blob/4a7d8e58ac5c3cd7d00a2af378975e1... https://github.com/TEIC/Guidelines-TEST/blob/4a7d8e58ac5c3cd7d00a2af378975e1... So it’s been busted for at least almost a decade...

On Aug 10, 2015, at 4:24 , Lou Burnard wrote:

The process of TEI content models proceeds apace and (as might be expected) is turning up a few oddities in some unfrequented corners.

For example, the content model of <langUsage> is currently (in the source)

<content> <oneOrMore xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"> <choice> <!-- <rng:ref name="p"/>--> <ref name="language"/> </choice> </oneOrMore> </content>

Now, this is clearly nonsense : you can't have an alternation with just one option. But did we really want to remove the possibility for having a purely documentary <langUsage> such as <p>Contains various unrecognised Polynesian languages</p>?

Can anyone remember why we made this change ? I would have expected to see something like

<choice> <oneOrMore> </oneOrMore> <oneOrMore> </oneOrMore>

myself.

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