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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 2 Nov 2009, at 15:07, David Sewell wrote:

> Would @prefix also be needed on <attDef> for similar reasons?
>


no, because the attributes are not exposed by name alone. their  
patterns include the prefix of the element name.

however, you is _well_ in trouble if you want to define a new  
attribute "my:type" on  <div>, for example. I am certain it will fail
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