Dear all, I’m trying to summarize the conclusions of the discussions Martin, Raff, and I had following the Ann Arbor meeting concerning what to do with block-level variation. If I’ve left out anything important, please correct me! * Syd’s suggestion that we allow more or less universal @wit and use that to distinguish between block-level variants doesn’t really fly, I’m afraid. It leads to a rather chaotic document, with a need for liberal use of @exclude attributes. It would be both hard to work with, and potentially quite hard to render. * The group feels that adding new app/lem/rdg elements for each level of block possible would also be too much. * We discussed at length whether a bending or breaking of the TEI Abstract Model† was in any way desired by structural app partisans. My own feeling is that it’s not, and Marjorie (the original filer of the bug) doesn’t want to do that sort of thing either: http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/753/#cd40/b53c http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/753/#cd40/b53c * Given that, we think some sort of structural app is needed. But we need to work on checking for Abstract Model violations and adding documentation warning against using structural app for evil. I’ve started to play with Schematron rules, but haven’t gotten as far as actually testing them yet. I may need some help generating a schematron document for my schema. For a bit of fun, you might want to check out the paper and demo I gave last week that uses HTML Custom Elements to render a TEI file with apps containing lines. The demo is at http://hcayless.github.io/appcrit/Propertius-1-15.html http://hcayless.github.io/appcrit/Propertius-1-15.html and the paper at https://github.com/hcayless/appcrit/blob/master/docs/DLL-seminar-paper.md https://github.com/hcayless/appcrit/blob/master/docs/DLL-seminar-paper.md † though I note that the actual definition is recursive (see http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/USE.html#CFAM http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/USE.html#CFAM). The TEI Abstract Model is whatever the Guidelines says it is...