[tei-council] MD chapter revised: namespace rules

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:
> But that mapping isn't accessible to anyone's normal document 
> processing tools is it? We don't have TEIFORM anymore. Of course if 
> you can whip out of the bag some foolproof way of implementing 
> something equivalent using standard XML processing tools, I'll stop 
> complaining...
well, as I say, I did demonstrate this in Sofia!
>
>> As Syd says, no sane Tite user would pay for <x:sup> over <sup>,
>> so Tite won't conform; unlike Lite, which _will_ be OK.
>>
> If the primary objective of Tite (or any schema) is to save 
> keystrokes, then TEI conformance/interoperability is going to be a 
> secondary objective for it.
hmm, better explain that to Big John U. He thinks
Tite will be the TEI's next big thing. And here we are
saying it won't even be TEI conformant....
> (I Dont see what Lite has to do with the price of fish)
>
you vaguely wondered if Tite could replace Lite.


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