[tei-council] MD chapter revised: namespace rules

[Lou Burnard]

Wittern Christian wrote:
> Dan O'Donnell wrote:
>> It seems to me that we can refine the set of principles:
>>
>> 1. New elements may not be placed in the TEI namespace.
>> 3. Only modified elements which have undergone a clean modification may
>> remain in the TEI namespace. The addition of attributes to a TEI element
>> is clean as long as the new attribute itself is identified as coming
>> from a different namespace.
>> 4. Official translations have their own TEI namespace as long as they
>> represent a 1:1 translation of the entire standard and remain
>> up-to-date.
>>
>>   
> This is what I would agree to as well.
> 
>> Like everybody else, I'm having trouble with simple project-based
>> renamings, since they can remain in the TEI namespace under principle 3.
>>   
>

I think there's a misunderstanding here. Renaming an element is *not* a 
clean modification, since the set of documents now regarded as valid is 
not a pure subset of the documents regarded as valid before the 
modification.