error in description of teiCorpus
"C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <[email protected]>
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The gloss of the teiCorpus element reads
<teiCorpus> contains the whole of a TEI encoded corpus,
comprising a single corpus header and one or more TEI
elements, each containing a single text header and a text.
This was a true description in TEI P3 and TEI P4, but at
some point the content model was changed. What follows
the header is no longer a sequence of ‘TEI’ elements
(and since the vocabulary can be modified, it is also not
necessarily a sequence of elements defined by the TEI,
so not necessarily ‘TEI elements’ in that sense).
The gloss should probably be changed to avoid stating
a falsehood. Perhaps it would do just to say
<teiCorpus> contains the whole of a TEI encoded corpus,
comprising a single corpus header and one or more
elements representing part of the corpus, some of
which may be teiCorpus or TEI elements with headers
of their own.
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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Black Mesa Technologies LLC
[email protected]
http://www.blackmesatech.com
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