[tei-council] Supplying default namespace with TEI Tite

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:

> Actually James, that would be absolutely superb. The point behind Tite 
> is that it is a temporary workflow stage that can then be converted 
> directly to TEI. It's non-conformancy is a pure artefact of the intended 
> use case (keyboarders paid by the character). Tite is not namespaced for 
> purely economic reasons: there is no intellectual objection to <t:i>; 
> the economic objection is that it increases the cost of the tag by 60%.

I think you're restarting an argument that we had in and around Berlin.
At that time, for whatever reason, we decided that Tite _should_
be a conformant TEI customization, in the TEI namespace. I duly
spent some time making it so. What you say above is a plausible
scenario, but it is not where we are. Tite _does_ use the TEI namespace,
and its extension elements _are_ in a different namespace.

_If_ minimizing keystrokes is the absolute priority, I don't
think Tite does a particularly good job, frankly. But thats by the by.

Sadly, Tite _stopped_ being conformant when we dropped the requirement
for a <teiHeader> :-}

> I also think the rest of your observation is excellent here: Tite is an 
> opportunity to show how you can customise things and ought to be a 
> teaching moment in terms of explaining to people why they should see it 
> only as a stage in a workflow rather than an archival format. A sheet 
> converting to TEI would really help emphasise that and we could edit the 
> documentation to really emphasis this. 

Tite is/was an opportunity to show how one can write
extension elements and express their relationship
to core TEI using <equiv>. To that end, the ODD contains
the <equiv>, which points to the mapping code in XSL,
and you have the extensible conversion stylesheet in place.


>Of course I believe the Monk 
> project is using it as their internal language.

not sure why "of course" there :-{

I do find it strange how confused we all still are
about Tite. It's been an amazingly divisive subject ever
since it was first mooted. One can choose between interpreting
this is as

  a) a sign that the TEI world is fundamentally split
     about what its trying to do
  b) showing up the old skool rump for the dinosaurs they really are
  c) indication of a vibrant exciting community

deal or no deal?
-- 
Sebastian Rahtz
Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431

Sólo le pido a Dios
que el futuro no me sea indiferente