[tei-council] @TEIform

[Susan Schreibman]

I've always wondered why it was there and never used it -- I'd be in 
favor of dropping it

susan

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>As you all know, any TEI schema or DTD has an attribute "TEIform" for
>every element.
>It contains the name of the element, and is there to help you
>reconstruct documents
>where the element name has changed.
>
>We now know how to do this better by reference back to the ODD source,
>which also covers attribute names.
>
>Hands up all those who would be willing to quietly drop this dinosaur
>artefact?
>
>  
>

-- 
Susan Schreibman, PhD
Assistant Dean
Head of Digital Collections and Research
McKeldin Library
University of Maryland 
College Park, MD 20742

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