[tei-council] copy of request put in Sourceforge about elements with the same name in ODD

[Sebastian Rahtz]

I want to incorporate islands of distinct markup in a TEI document, in  
their own namespace. Unfortunately, one of the elements has the same  
name as an existing TEI one. If I pull in the external namespace as a  
RELAX NG schema, I can use a pattern prefix in the TEI to avoid the  
conflict, but this precludes making DTDs and getting integrated  
documentation, so I'd like to pull in (using XInclude) the external  
scheme using ODD (luckily, its already written in ODD). But now I  
cannot distinguish the external <term> from the TEI <term> (for it is  
this element which is the evil one).

I'd like to get around this by making two changes to ODD:
   a) add a "prefix" attribute to <elementSpec>, parallel to the one  
on <schemaSpec>, to allow us to determine the pattern name generated
   b) add a boolean attribute to <content> to determine whether  
references therein (RELAX NG <ref>) are able to be changed by having
       prefixes added automatically (as the TEI processor normally) does

I am not 100% sure this is the most elegant solution, but I do think  
that we need to cater for this situation.

Thoughts?

(if you wonder, I am pulling in ISO terminology markup, a thing called  
TBX)
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Sebastian Rahtz
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