[tei-council] DRAFT Agenda for the TEI Council teleconference on June 15, 2007 at 1200 UTC

[John A. Walsh]

On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Conal Tuohy wrote:

> I tend to agree. I know if I had "@rendref" (as a pointer to a
> tei:rendition), I would probably use it in place of rend  
> everywhere. In
> certain circumstances it might be considered easier for encoders to be
> able to encode rendition information inline (using @rend), but I think
> this would tend to be where there are a large number of distinct
> renditions being encoded.

Conal,

The case you describe--documents with a large number of distinct  
references--is, I think, the main legitimate argument for keeping  
@rend alongside something like @rendref.  It also answers the less  
legitimate calls for backwards compatibility with P4.

John