[tei-council] Re: The Naming of Classes

[Christian Wittern]

Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

>><item>If the class members are all children of the element after
>>which the class is named, then the first suffix should be
>><code>Part</code>; if the class members are all siblings of the
>>element after which the class is named, then the first suffix should
>>be <code>Like</code>.</item>
>
> This is OK, but misses the point that "like" things are not only
> siblings -- they are also semantically related. And there are siblings
> which are not like.

Which is exactly what caused my confusion. How about 

... if the class members all occur on the same hierarchical level as
the siblings of the element after which the class is named, then the
first suffix should be <code>Like</code>.

for the second half of the sentence?

Christian

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 Christian Wittern 
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