[tei-council] Conformance draft: namespace purity

[James Cummings]

While I think that Namespace Purity should be a requirement for any form of 
Interchange Format, I'm am not yet unconvinced that it should not be a 
requirement for Conformance as well.  I.e. if we are going to do namespaces, we 
owe it to our users and place as a standard to do so properly.  I do agree that 
including more discussion on the benefits of namespaces, their relationship to 
conformance and schemas, will benefit the Conformance chapter section (since it 
is no longer a chapter by itself).  I had not included such because I was not 
sure that the council would agree to the principle of TEI Namespace purity.  I 
think there should be more discussion, in the Non-Conformant section, on those 
schemas which otherwise would be Conformant, but simply lack the namespace 
differentiation required by Conformance.  I don't think we should view such 
documents as *bad* in any way, simply not Conformant nor in Interchange Format.

i.e., I see Syd's point, but am not convinced that we should back down from 
Namespace Purity.

I have not yet done any of the changes or corrections suggested to me (I had 
timetabled it for starting at the end of this week), and am happy for Lou to add 
any of his changes in the meantime.

-James

Lou Burnard wrote:
> That was certainly a minority view which has been expressed. And 
> certainly the material on the interchange format (formerly IN, now 24.2) 
> is in need of substantial revision. Maybe a good way forward would be to 
> see how far we can get with that first? Certainly the two are closely 
> related!
> 
> 
> Syd Bauman wrote:
>>> Over the last week, Dan, Dot, Arianna, Conal, Sebastian and I have
>>> all expressed support for James's proposal that (inter alia)
>>> conformance in a TEI document implies that the TEI namespace
>>> remains unpolluted by user-defined elements.
>>>     
>>
>> I had thought that perhaps James (and someone else?) now believed
>> that namespace-purity be in the realm of the definition of "TEI
>> Interchange Format", rather than of "TEI Conformance". I certainly
>> do.
>>
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