[tei-council] name type

[Lou Burnard]

I suppose it would be madness to do anything about it now, but I would 
like to record  disapproval for the way the Guidelines currently endorse 
the use of the @type attribute on <name> to record the type of the 
name's referent rather than the type of name: <name type="person"> 
rather than <name type="mellifluous"> for example. I am not saying it 
isn't useful to record the type of thing being named -- clearly it is -- 
just that I wish we had thought to use a different attribute for the 
purpose, since everywhere else @type definitely classifies the element 
itself. Oh well.