[MEI-L] <syl> inside <choice>

Thu Mar 8 20:57:40 CET 2012

Hi, Thomas,

I just validated your examples against /trunk/schemata/mei-all.rng, which I believe reflects the proper behavior expressed in the current version of mei-source.

Because <choice> is a member of model.editLike, it is allowed in the content of <syl>.

<!-- syl content -->
<content>
  <rng:zeroOrMore>
    <rng:choice>
      <rng:text/>
      <rng:ref name="model.textphraseLike.limited"/>
      <rng:ref name="model.editLike"/>
      <rng:ref name="model.transcriptionLike"/>
    </rng:choice>
  </rng:zeroOrMore>
</content>

So, this should validate:

<syl>
  <choice>
    <orig><!-- English --></orig>
    <reg><!-- German --></orig>
  </choice>
</syl>

The following is (perhaps unfortuntely) also permitted

<syl>
  <orig/>
  <reg/>
</syl>

because <syl> also allows model.transcriptionLike members, one of which is <orig>, as do many elements that allow mixed content.

In this case, no choice between the 2 things is suggested.  The assumption is that the members of transcriptionLike, most usefully <add>, <del>, <sic>, <corr>, etc., will be used to mark parts of the text phrase, as in

<syl>glare<add>d</add></syl>

which indicates that the 'd' was added later.

The <orig> and <reg> elements come as part of the transcriptionLike class -- it's too hard to exclude them.

The <syl> element is *not allowed* in any of the transcriptionLike elements, such as <orig> or <reg> because

<choice>
  <orig>
    <syl>Ms.</syl>
  </orig>
  <reg>
    <syl>Miss</syl>
  </reg>
</choice>

can be expressed more succinctly as

<syl>
  <choice>
    <orig>Ms.</orig>
    <reg>Miss</reg>
  </choice>
</syl>

and, unlike some other things under discussion recently, in this case the decision was to allow only one way to do it.  (MEI, like most other things in the real world, is not completely self-consistent -- sue me.)

Unless the customization service is using an outdated/cached version of mei-source.xml, I can't say why you're getting different behavior.  Maybe this is a question for Daniel R.

Hope this helps,

--
p.

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Subject: Re: [MEI-L] <syl> inside <choice>

It seems the following is legal:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mei xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei">
  <meiHead>
    <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
        <title/>
      </titleStmt>
      <pubStmt/>
    </fileDesc>
  </meiHead>
  <music>
    <body>
      <mdiv>
        <score>
          <section>
            <measure>
              <staff>
                <layer>
                  <note>
                    <syl>
                      <orig>Ms.</orig>
                      <reg>Miss</reg>
                    </syl>
                  </note>
                </layer>
              </staff>
            </measure>
          </section>
        </score>
      </mdiv>
    </body>
  </music>
</mei>

But why like this and not with <choice>?

Thomas

2012/3/8 TW <zupftom at googlemail.com>:
> I just tried something like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <mei xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei">
>  <meiHead>
>    <fileDesc>
>      <titleStmt>
>        <title/>
>      </titleStmt>
>      <pubStmt/>
>    </fileDesc>
>  </meiHead>
>  <music>
>    <body>
>      <mdiv>
>        <score>
>          <section>
>            <measure>
>              <staff>
>                <layer>
>                  <note>
>                    <choice>
>                      <orig>
>                        <syl>Ms.</syl>
>                      </orig>
>                      <reg>
>                        <syl>Miss</syl>
>                      </reg>
>                    </choice>
>                  </note>
>                </layer>
>              </staff>
>            </measure>
>          </section>
>        </score>
>      </mdiv>
>    </body>
>  </music>
> </mei>
>
>
> I let oXygen validate against the RNG that the web service gave me,
> and it complains about <syl> in <orig> or <reg>.  Indeed, the
> documentation says, <syl> is only allowed inside <lem>, <rdg>,
> <verse>, <syllable> and <note>.  Why is this so?  Bug or feature?
>
> Thomas

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