[tei-council] Conformance draft: namespace purity

[James Cummings]

Conal Tuohy wrote:
> If they want to leave it blank that's OK with me ... though what's the
> conformance status of a schema that includes names which are not in any
> namespace?

According to 1.3.2, 'TEI Extension Schema':
"All new elements and attributes, which are not renamings of current
elements and attributes, must be added in a separate namespace."  This
implies to me that they should not be in a null namespace.

Perhaps this should be stated more explicitly?

-James
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