[tei-council] MD chapter revised: namespace rules

[Lou Burnard]

Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
>
> My only question is why to we discuss renaming elements as distinct from
> just creating new ones at all then?  I.e. why raise the possibility at
> all? 
Renaming, like translation, is a specific kind of user mod which may 
greatly improve usability for some applications. In TEI-Tite, for 
example, they have introduced lots of renaming mods of the kind <xx> 
which are defined as renamings for <hi rend="xx">.  It seems helpful to 
identify this as a possibility which is not quite the same as 
*inventing* a tag <xx>, even though in conformance terms they are much 
of a muchness -- if only because, as James points out, it's a Simple 
Matter Of Programming to canonicalise the renaming.


> 1) Only official TEI subsets and translations or clean subsets thereof
> may use the official TEI namespaces
>   
what exactly is an "official" TEI subset? I think you mean "only schemas 
derived from the TEI modules either without modification or using only 
"clean" modification"
> 2) All new or renamed elements, attributes, or non-clean modifications
> of elements or attributes, must be in a user defined namespace.
>
>   
that's about the size of it.