[tei-council] Supplying default namespace with TEI Tite

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Lou Burnard wrote:
>   
>> Of course if we had an active SIG (or something) saying "we really 
>> need specialised forms of <hi> (etc) by analogy with the specialised 
>> forms of <seg>" possibly in their own separate module, that would be 
>> different!
>>     
> we have a tei-in-lib sig, who could make the case I suppose
>   
>> I *really* don't understand  the need for <ornament> as distinct from 
>> <graphic>
>> though. Has anyone ever explained that?
>>
>>     
> <ornament> has content, unlike <graphic>. wrapping it all in
> a <figure> is a bit verbose.
>
>   
Also, wasn't that a pre-source forge feature request or similar from the 
DLF? I remember Sebastian, Christian, and I working on it in Berlin.

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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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