According to the edw89 draft the proposed mechanism
* should be optional, ignorable, and over-ridable
* should not be TEI-specific
If the first is a serious requirement, I cannot see any point in the
proposal at all. Its only possible outcome might be a suggestion that
specifying a schema this way is one amongst the many things you might
do with a PI (but since you might also do the same thing another way,
or other things the same way, why bother to make the suggestion?)
If the second is a serious requirement, then clearly there is
littlethe TEI can do to achieve it!
Given that the proposal has already been discussed and failed to
persuade one expert forum (the rng users group), why resurrect it now?
For the record, I think this is a waste of time. The most I think we
should do in TEI P5 is to add a few sentences to SG (introductory
chapter on XML) explaining how a schema might be associated with an
instance, possibly giving the rationale for not doing it. And I'm not
even sure about that.
Lou
