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Why can't I change an attribute defintion to have an open or semi list? #2391

Closed hcayless closed 1 year ago

hcayless commented 1 year ago

Scenario: I'm working on a project encoding texts and adding placeName, orgName, and persName references. We're developing a set of @types for placeNames and orgNames (e.g. type="building" or "street", etc.). We do not yet have an exhaustive list of the types we want. If redefine @type on placeName to be a semi-open list, with the values we've got so far, so encoders will get sensible suggestions for the value of @type, I get an error because of the first Schematron rule in https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-attDef.html.

But surely I should be able to do this. It produces a perfectly sensible RNG Schema, which does what I want. Why should this be an error?

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

This is mystifying, because the context on one of the Schematron rules sets a context limiting to @type with a closed valList...Is it a different rule causing this problem?

hcayless commented 1 year ago

Never mind. I think I was doing something wrong. I was assuming mode should be "replace".