[tei-council] TEI relaxng schemas, pattern names

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Those of you who read our relaxng schemas for fun will know that
they are full of patterns like:
 
 div = element div {div.content,div.attributes}
 div.content =  p+

Although the _element_ <div> is in a namespace, and protected
from conflict, the _pattern_ "div" is global. If you merge the TEI
with another language, and that too defines a pattern "div", it's
an error.

To get around this, I have done some experimental
work on the processing
and found that I can insert eg "_TEI_" in front of each
pattern, so that the above would be:

 _TEI_div = element div {div.content,div.attributes}
 div.content =  _TEI_p+

Question: should I make this standard
for our output? It means the schemas are less legible,
but makes them more portable.

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Sebastian Rahtz      
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