#433 loosen content model of <salute>
The element <salute> is allowed to contain macro.phraseSeq. It is described as " a salutation or greeting prefixed to a foreword, dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text, or the salutation in the closing of a letter, preface". A very similar element <signed> ("contains the closing salutation, etc., appended to a foreword, dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text") is allowed macro.paraContent. The effect is that <list> is allowed in <signed> but not in <salute>.
The exemplar in front of me is from EEBO, TCP A88237 /STC E573_16. The attached graphic shows the original, and this is the (translated) TCP markup:
<floatingText xml:lang="eng">
<body>
<div type="order">
<head>Die Martis, <hi>1</hi> August <hi>1648.</hi>
</head>
<opener>
<salute>
<list>
<item>
<hi>Sir JOHN MAYNARD.</hi>
</item>
<item>
<hi>Sir PETER WENTVVORTH.</hi>
</item>
<item>
<hi>Lord CARRE.</hi>
etc
I believe the decision to encode that as a <list> is credible.
I have no answer but wanted to link to Paul Schaffner's emails at http://markmail.org/message/swpevtftqiubwoly and http://markmail.org/message/xajklnibvoi5oj34.
Cf. also http://purl.org/TEI/bugs/3439980
I wonder if you could go with <signed> rather than <salute>?
Sorry, but I don't see this as a sensible use for
<salute>which I believe is meant to contain "a salutation or greeting" not a list of people making one. There might well be a salutation ahead of or after the list, which you'd want to distinguish from it. The list itself might be treated as a<signature>or just as an<opener>I suppose.this is reminiscent of the unfinished debate over signatures, whether the element is interpretative or structural....
http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/EEBO/ has a list of relevant TCP texts
In the example above, I read the list of people as addressees, that is, people being saluted, not people making a salute as Lou suggested. If this is right, than this list of names does constitute the <salute> of this letter, and <signed> won't do as a replacement.
Council discussion 11/13 agreed that
<salute>is comparable to<signed>and should therefore be allowed to have the same sorts of content, including lists. Implement.