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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Conal Tuohy wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 13:43 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>   
>> so we all agree that the TEI says nothing about output rendition? should we
>> concretely suggest using html:class / html:style?
>>     
>
> It's probably worth pointing out that in HTML, the class and style
> attributes are not in a namespace, so we can't just "borrow" them in
> this way.
>   
true. you have to define them yourself.
>
> renditions being encoded. For most uses of @rend which *I* have seen, it
> would be easily replaced with a reference.
>   
yes. but the  feeling on TEI-L seemed to be very firmly
of the opinion that it would be too big a change at this
point.
>
> That seems reasonable to me. Does it matter if the optional module
> doesn't include anything else?#
>   
technically, no.
> Would it be enough for the optional module to redefine @rend as a
> pointer? Would that be a "clean" modification of tei_all?
>   
no!!!!!
> Otherwise, if a new attribute name is required (distinct from @rend),
> what about calling it "rendition" - to match the name of the element to
> which it refers?
>   
hmm. are there parallels?

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