[tei-council] Conformance draft: namespace purity

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Apr 2 17:50:20 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
>
> I can probably be persuaded to like this eventually, but it does 
> rather raise the spectre of "TEI approved extensions" vs "TEI not 
> approved extensions". And how on earth can we guarantee that $NAME is 
> going to be unique?  In which case all the arguments about  namespace 
> pollution reappear, though at a higher level.
>
Not our problem, though.  We can't get bogged down in registration of 
namespaces
or resolving conflicts. Whatever scheme we choose, we can't guarentee 
uniqueness.
I am only talking about a _suggestion_ for the namespace, anyone with 
more than
two brains will know to change it.

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