[tei-council] MD chapter revised: namespace rules

[Dan O'Donnell]

On Thu, 2007-12-04 at 23:45 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> yes, I had not grasped that these syntactic sugars
> would be in a different namespace until a few hours ago.
> I agree, I personally think that's simply unworkable.

This I agree with as well. Sugar is a way of simplifying things. I'm
still in favour of "TEI namespace if your renaming doesn't conflict and
can be undone cleanly"

> >
> > Sure. The Imaginary Project creates a schema with half a dozen
> > changes vs. vanilla TEI. Rather than expend the effort to figure out
> > which things affected by the changes should be in tei: namespace and
> > which should be in ip: namespace, they will just put every element
> > and attribute affected by the change into the ip: namespace.
> >   
> I think I get you. You mean that when they constrain
> the @type on <div>, they'll put <div> in the ip: space,
> because they think they have to? yes, that would be
> absurd.
> >
> > He meant the former, and he obviously does not think it is far too
> > late. Nor do I, for that matter. I doubt you really do, either,
> > Sebastian, as you understand TEI, but IIRC still have trouble
> > wrapping your mind around W3C Schema (although you certainly do
> > better than I with it :-)
> >   
> 
> after a few hours studying an XSD recently, I think
> I finally realized how the demented brains
> of the designers were working. I still don't
> fully understand the ODD processing model,
> and I am the one who has to document it :-{
> 
> anyway, forget this side meander. The issue is
> whether conformance and interchange
> are the same thing or not. I conflate them,
> you clearly separate them.

But do you Sebastian? If you think Sugar is not a namespace issue,
surely you think it needs to be undoable for interchange?


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