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

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Tue Apr 17 04:45:55 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
> Well, as regards namespace, the options seems to be:
>
> 1. The line of least resistance: say that your schema is not in any 
> namespace (by saying ns="" on your <schemaSpec>)
> 2. The odour of sanctity: say that the attribute is new (by saying 
> ns="http://myspace.com" on the <attDef> in the <elementSpec> in your 
> <schemaSpec>)
> 3. Political correctness gone mad: say that the element is new (by 
> saying ns="http://myspace.com" on the <elementSpec> in your <schemaSpec>)
and leave the attribute in the empty namespace in that case
>
> Of these three, I believe (but I'm not sure) that (2) and (3) are both 
> what we are currently calling "conformant", but obvious (2) makes more 
> sense.
I agree. And note that the most interchangeable format is (2).
>
> We don't have a name for (1) yet.
"Overlap".  The schema Christian makes for (1) overlaps the TEI mostly.

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