[tei-council] conformance draft

James Cummings James.Cummings at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Fri Mar 23 05:09:17 EST 2007


Conal Tuohy wrote:
> It is bad practice for the TEI Council to licence others to define new
> names within the TEI namespace, under ANY circumstances.

Agreed.  In principle this is bad practice.

> Now, do we want to avoid name collisions or don't we? If we don't care
> about name collisions, what is the TEI namespace for? Why have we added
> it? 

See, that is what I *should* have said! Thanks Conal!

> I don't see that using multiple namespaces in text encoding is really a
> serious barrier, but if other people think it is, then we need to find
> ways to help people use multiple namespaces, rather than pollute the TEI
> namespace. In the meantime, if using multiple namespaces is too great a
> barrier for some people, then they can use P4. P5 is namespaced, and
> customisers should get used to it.

I do feel it is a bit of a barrier, but that this is a barrier which should be
negated through application interface (Roma), numerous examples, and education.

-James

-- 
Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk



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