[tei-council] more class rationalizations

[John A. Walsh]

I am definitely in favor of the change proposed below.

-john
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On Oct 12, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Lou's Laptop wrote:

> 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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