[tei-council] Supplying default namespace with TEI Tite (fwd)

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jul 7 11:19:40 EDT 2009


David Sewell wrote:
> Just a quick comment on all this--I'm in between meetings.
>
> For Tite encoding, there is very little reason to care about the
> difference, at the initial encoding stage, between
>
>   <i>word</i>  and <t:i>word</t:i>
>
> *except* in the case where content owners are paying per XML character.
> That's the bottom-line reason for avoiding <hi rend="italics"> in the
> first place and using convenience elements instead.
>
> If Tite is used by people applying it for their own purposes, I see it
> as very little handicap to rely solely on the RELAX NG schema and
> explicitly namespace their convenience elements via prefixing.
>
> So this all may be a non-issue.
>
>   
If the bottom line is to minimize keystrokes, then XML is a really 
really bad choice!




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