Abstract

This paper proposes a minor but significant modification to the TEI ODD language and explores some of its implications. Can we improve on the present compromise whereby TEI content models are expressed in RELAX NG? A very small set of additional elements would permit the ODD language to cut its ties with any existing schema language, and thus permit it to support exactly and only the subset or intersection of their facilities which makes sense in the TEI context. It would make the ODD language an integrated and independent whole rather than an uneasy hybrid, and pave the way for future developments in the management of structured text beyond the XML paradigm.

Highlights

  • 10 Everything else in a TEI-conformant ODD specification uses only constructs from the TEI namespace

  • We will argue for a further extension of the ODD language to replace several of the cases listed above. 3.1 Element Content Models

  • Support for DTD schema language in particular imposes many limitations on what would otherwise be possible, while the many additional facilities provided by W3C Schema and RELAX NG for content validation are hardly used at all

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Summary

Some Background

Donald Knuth had been here before us, with his concept of "literate programming".3. We will argue for a further extension of the ODD language to replace several of the cases listed above

Element Content Models
Datatyping and Other Forms of Validation
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