Re: silly Syd, frustrated fool [NOTE: I am posting this *for discussion after release*. Nothing here affects the release, I don't think, and I don't want to get into a lengthy discussion while I've got a lot to do and not a lot of time.] So I've now spent quite a few hours (most 3 months ago, about an hour this morning) fixing the code in the template for <dataRef> in odds/teiodds.xsl that handles @minOccurs and @maxOccurs. At one point it occurred to me that *no* value of @maxOccurs was being handled properly. "How did this ever work?" I asked myself. A quick look verified my fears: <dataRef> does not *have* a @minOccurs or @maxOccurs. So for now I'm just going to stop working on this (and leave it in its improved -- but still not working -- state, with a comment explaining). But I'm wondering if this vestigial code means at one point we wanted @minOccurs and @maxOccurs on <dataRef>? And furthermore, do we want <dataRef> to be a member of att.repeatable? I *think* the answer is "no", because it would never be needed. For simple multiple-vals-in-an-attr cases, the parent <datatype> can have @minOccurs or @maxOccurs. For anything more complex (whether inside <datatype> or <content>) <sequence> and <alternate> (which are members of att.repeatable) could be used to control quantity. So I think we don't need or want <dataRef> to have @minOccurs or @maxOccurs. Thoughts? The other frustratingly foolish thing I did recently while working on @minOccurs and @maxOccurs I post here both to remind y'all of this peril, and to amuse Lou who will at least chuckle. For Lou knows that I can never spell "occurs" correctly. My fingers just want to add an extra 'r'. Well, if you spell it wrong in a variable name, oXygen complains immediately "I don't know the variable $maxOccurrs". But if you spell it wrong in a reference to the attribute axis, oXygen does not know better, and an XSLT processor will happily chug along and test if @maxOccurrs is "unbounded". Since there is *never* a @maxOccurrs, it is *never* "unbounded". Sigh. I hope all you Americans had a Happy Thanksgiving!