[tei-council] more class rationalizations

laurent.romary at loria.fr laurent.romary at loria.fr
Mon Oct 13 01:48:38 EDT 2008


I am just amazed that we still have such a legacy situation...

It is a clear go-ahead from me!

Lou's Laptop <lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk> a écrit :

> 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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