[tei-council] rules about renaming

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Apr 2 18:42:52 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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?
>
the xml:lang makes no difference there, its just documentation.

am trying to think what the effect would be. have you tried it?
my brain is hurting following through the implications. I suspect
that in RELAXNG it might just work, in the sense of getting a valid
schema.



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