[tei-council] namespaces and modifications

[James Cummings]

Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Hrmmm.  If I've added a brand new element, my:foo, I've done so in my 
>> own namespace, of course.  But if I add it to class att.typed, it 
>> joins that club and gets the TEI element tei:typed, right?  So, 
>> playing devil's advocate, why should that 
> eh? do you mean it gets the TEI attribute tei:type?

erm  yes, exactly.  Sorry, typo.

> well, yes that was the point of my query. It's just that my head started 
> to hurt when I started thinking about how to document the rules here.

Yes, I can understand that.  All existing TEI elements and attributes are in the 
TEI namespace, even if used on new elements in a different namespace?


> just about to check in a revised version of MD which maybe will help...

I look forward to it.

-James
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