[tei-council] MD chapter revised: namespace rules

[Dan O'Donnell]

On Tue, 2007-10-04 at 16:12 +0100, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Dan O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> > Finally a question: what happens if I extend a tei attribute to a new
> > element (or make it global).
> > 
> 
> That's an unclean modification -- the set of documents matched by the 
> extended schema is not a pure subset of the set of documents matched by 
> the unextended one -- ergo you must put a namespace on something, 
> presumably  the attribute you've now defined as global.

Thanks. That's the solution I slouched towards myself.

> 
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