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

[James Cummings]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> Yup, I understand and agree with all of that.  So by suggesting that 
>> people use namespaces for their new attributes we encourage the good 
>> practice that TEI already follows of not having @myspace:where mean 
>> something on one element and @myspace:where mean something else on 
>> another element.
> what if add the TEI-consonant @type to an element which doesnt have it 
> already?

I believe consensus was that this was an 'unclean' change, and thus 
element and attribute are put in a user-defined namespace.

-James