Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> wrote:
Lee Passey wrote:
I would really like to know what the rationale for this rule is.
I suggest that you repackage your inquiry and post it to TEI-L. That's where the bulk of the TEI experts, including those involved with TEI development, hang out. Sebastian Rahtz is one of the brilliant people there who is interested in a more constrained TEI subset for ebook use.
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=TEI-L&H=LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Maybe this time around the TEI mavens will be able to cogently explain (at the highest abstract level) why one should not have a <p> after a <div> within another <div>, but can have a <p> before the <div>. I'm still quite perplexed, as it appears Marcello is as well.
OK, so I guess I really don't want to know that badly. Everyone has to select from among those things they feel passsionate about, which ones they are going to spend time working one, and for me this is not one of those things. Besides, if they're not going to listen to Mr. Perathoner, or Mr. Collin, or even, apparently, Mr. Rahtz, one more random voice crying from the wilderness is not going to make much difference. Besides, being the anarchist that I am, my solution would be just to grab the TEI dtds from tei-c.org, rename them to "pg<whatever>.dtd", replace the one offending comma with a space, and then validate to that instead.