[tei-council] Internationalization

[Sebastian Rahtz]

David Sewell wrote:
> Hmm, others will need to weigh in as I have not worked much with i18n. 
> But I don't think it's a good solution, as in general (leaving Tite 
> aside as a sort of special case) it's not healthy to "mask" differences 
> in namespaces by using the DTD trick.

it's not a trick. its just a shorthand. if you run the file
through an XML parser, the xmlns decls will all come in
as expected. Just the same facility as DTD folks have always
had.

> (Are there in-the-wild examples of projects that have translated lots of 
> TEI element names into another language?)

I don't know of any at all.


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