[tei-council] egXML

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jan 24 18:44:32 EST 2007


Conal Tuohy wrote:
> I don't want to quibble about it, especially given that it actually
> works - I just want to understand it. What I haven't grasped is why the
> "funny" namespace is needed at all. What I mean is, why can't the egXML
> element and its content all just be in the regular TEI namespace?
>
>   
practically, because it would play merry hell
with validation and processing. A simple
thing like  <xsl:number level="any"/> for  processing <note>
will meet the <note> inside the examples. It
may sound lazy, but when we set this up
I couldnt see any other way forward. Its trying
to make it very clear that this is an island
of oddity where normal rules do not apply.

Maybe we were being short-sighted? does
anyone else remember?

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