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

[Wittern Christian]

Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 10:32 +0100, James Cummings wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Indeed it was the consensus. And indeed if you added it to new elements
> because you wanted to have a global type element, we seemed to think
> that all types were my:type.
>
>   
Well, things are moving so fast it becomes difficult to keep track.  Say 
I want to add @type to p.  Does this mean my tei:p has to be changed to 
my:p?   This seems quite drastic to me.  It would be sufficient in my 
book simply to say @my:type  and leave p as tei:p.

Christian 



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