role= attribute with comma?

[sydb]

In MIX-People.xml there are 2 @role values of "speaker, collaborator"; in MIX-Lexicon-TEI-Dict.xml there are 2 @role values of "speaker collaborator" (and 1 of "editor researcher").

The Lexicon file is correct. Because COMMA (U+002C, ‘,’) is (unwisely IMHO) a legal character in teidata.word, and thus in teidata.enumerated, this is not a validity error. But since the values of @role are space-separated, in MIX-People.xml the two roles are “collaborator” and “speaker,”.

The following (untested) ODD snippet would allow this (and all sorts of other @role errors) to be caught in the initial validation phase.

	<elementSpec ident="person" module="namesdates" mode="change">
	  <attList>
	    <attDef ident="role" mode="change">
	      <valList type="closed">
		<valItem ident="speaker"/>
		<valItem ident="collaborator"/>
		<valItem ident="editor"/>
		<valItem ident="researcher"/> 
		<valItem ident="expert"/>
	      </valList>
	    </attDef>
	  </attList>
	</elementSpec>

[iljackb]

Hey Sid, Thanks for the feedback! I haven't had time to work on this lately, but I'll adjust the documents and add this to the ODD also. The ODD has quite a bit of work to be done on it actually.