Re: error in description of teiCorpus

It's true that the description doesn't match the content model now 
permitted, but I am not sure that I like your proposed rewording, since 
"one or more elements representing part of the corpus" seems to 
contradict the use case which led to Council agreeing this change back 
in 2013 (see https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/456/). My 
reading of that discussion is that any model.resourceLike element which 
is a direct child of teiCorpus should represent the whole of (some 
aspect of) the corpus, which is not quite what the suggested phrase 
connotes.

On 15/02/17 16:26, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
> 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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