[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

[Conal Tuohy]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:28 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
> >   Because doing rend="bigWobbly" where I define that by a paragraph in 
> > my ODD necessitates the ODD to accompany the instance (not a bad 
> > thing!), but point to a <rendition> element in the header where I have 
> > a paragraph describing it means my document instance stands on its own 
> > in terms of documenting the meaning of the values it contains.
> true. but why single out this one element for documentation of attribute 
> values in the header? you
> could say the same about @type

I think the main advantage of this would be when using a common
rendition language (i.e. CSS), which opens up the prospect of automated
rendering of diverse instance docs, with rendition. Clearly, the same
doesn't apply to @type.