[tei-council] attribute names (was MD chapter revised: namespace rules)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou's Laptop wrote:
> Just to be pernickety for a moment (moi!): attribute names on 
> different elements in the same namespace don't have to be distinct per 
> XML. The @where on tei:foo and the @where on tei:bar can have 
> completely different semantics and datatypes.  TEI *recommended 
> practice* however is that they ought to be the same. 
yet we don't stick to this in our own Guidelines, as I just found to my cost
(check out uses of eg @value).

> And if you put @myspace:where on  tei:foo it *has* to be the same 
> thing as say a @myspace:where on tei:bar, because there's no way of 
> saying otherwise.
I lost the will to live during this sentence. can you say it more slowly?



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