Good catch, Elena.

> Is the current state of the Guidelines/Schema as they are supposed
> to be or there is something wrong?

I can confidently say that something is wrong here, and that it will
be fixed in the next few weeks. What I can't say is whether it will
be fixed by changing the prose to describe the model of "any number
of any of these special elements in any order OR a sequence of
paragraphs", or the content model will be changed to more closely
match the prose (and what P4 had), which not only had the special
elements in a particular order, but also allowed both special
elements and paragraphs.


Personally, I lean towards changing the content model to

element encodingDesc {
   att.global.attributes,
   ( model.encodingPart_sequenceOptionalRepeatable, model.pLike* )
}

This would very closely match the kind of model P4 supported. The
main difference would be the addition of the new elements (<appInfo>,
<charDecl>, <geoDecl>, <ab>) and that <tagsDecl> would be repeatable,
whereas it wasn't in P4.