[tei-council] rules about renaming

[Lou Burnard]

If I want to rename a TEI element, I am obviously required not to use as 
the new name an existing name in the schema. Slightly less obviously, I 
cannot use as the new name any name from any module I might want to 
include in some other schema for the same document.

I cannot, for example, rename <p> as <q> if I am already using or plan 
to use <q>.

But what about names which happen to look the same in different languages?

For example, suppose the French for "p" were "q"... would the presence 
of the xml:lang attribute here be enough to make the following valid:

<elementSpec ident="p" mode="change">
<altIdent xml:lang="FR">q</altIdent>
</elementSpec>

and if not, does this mean that all identifiers share the same name space?

I rayther suspect they have to....