[tei-council] rendition in ODD

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Fri Jun 22 17:39:28 EDT 2007


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> What do people think about allowing <rendition> as a child of 
> classSpec and elementSpec?
> This would provide a place to store some default CSS, for example, and 
> allow Roma
> to generate a proposed CSS for each customization.
>
> I'd also like to add a "scheme" attribute to <equiv>, to let me say
>
> <equiv scheme="html" name="span"/>
>
> or the like (or maybe <equiv schema="http://www.w3c.org/htmlxxxxx" 
> name="span"/>).
>
> Any thoughts? James and I batted this around around, we reckon
> we could automate a lot of the production of CSS renditions of TEI->HTML
> or direct TEI.
>
I thought we'd agreed that the ODD specification was frozen several 
months ago?

And what is the existing <rendition> element for, if not supplying 
default formatting behaviour in precisely this way?






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