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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:
> Be aware that the printout you gave me has an error .. (in the heading of
> the last column, you've called it 'TEI conformant', when t'ain't since
> t'ain't no ODD.)
>   
This is a document which was born without benefit of clergy,
ie validated by its author against a hand-constructed schema.
HOWEVER, since the document has no DOCTYPE or schema PI,
we can't hold its bastardy against it, so we make it a ward of
court and say that its ODD is teiall.

Unless we mandate a link to an ODD, using a notation we
don't have, we can never claim conformant documents must
have an ODD.  A TEI Conformant System has an ODD, as part of it,
yes.

You may say that the unnamed document's ODD being teiall
is a legal fiction, but that may be true of any document.
If I show you a XML doc, and an ODD, and claim the two
relate, you're just taking my word for it.

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Sebastian Rahtz      
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