[tei-council] more class rationalizations

Lou's Laptop lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sun Oct 12 17:29:24 EDT 2008


I'd be very grateful for comments from council members on whether or not 
to press ahead with the minor tweak proposed in SF bug #2161974

Text of this bug says: "

The members of att.segLike (cl, c, m, phr, seg, s, w) all inherit their
@type attribute from that class, rather than from att.typed. Consequently
they don't behave like other typed attributes, which inherit this 
attribute from att.typed. Thus most of them don't have a @subtype  
attribute (except for seg, which adds it explicitly) This seems 
confusing and inconsistent. I propose to remove the @type attribute from 
att.segLike, remove @subtype from seg, and add all these elements to the 
att.typed class.(Another solution might be to make att.segLike a child 
of att.typed, but I prefer the more
explicit one suggested here)"


Can anyone suggest a good reason not to do this?




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