[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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