[tei-council] datatype of @n in att.global

[Wittern Christian]

Conal Tuohy wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 16:53 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>   
>> I have been caught out a lot of times today by the fact that
>> the value of  "n" is constrained so that it cannot contain spaces.
>> Given that it "gives a number (or other label) for an element, which is
>> not necessarily unique within the document", I think
>> this is unreasonable. One can easily imagine
>> labels such as "45 (3)" , "Documents and Settings/foo.xml"
>> or "No. 6" (as in "come in No. 6, your time is up".
>>
>> I humbly petition the court that space be allowed
>> in att.global/@n
>>     
>
> I vote yes
>   
+1

To be honest, I am surprised that space is not allowed in @n, so it 
looks more like a corrigible mistake to me.

Christian

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