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

[Lou's Laptop]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 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).

Such cases should be hunted down and extirpated with extreme prejeducie 
then!

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>> 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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the way tony puts it is that all explicitly namespaced attributes are 
global because you cannot necessarily tell what elements they are 
defined for.