[tei-council] xml:space

[Martin Holmes]

James Cummings wrote:
> I sometimes think that I should write a blog post entitled: 
> "Global Attributes Considered Harmful", because it annoys the 
> heck out of me every time I notice a global attribute on some 
> element (usually in the header) which doesn't make sense with the 
> semantics of that element. In most cases it is because to my mind 
> the attribute in question should be global-underneath-text rather 
> than truly global.

I think global attributes deserve to be so when the difficulty of 
restricting them without endless bickering outweighs the annoyance you 
(and others) feel when they're inappropriately available.

I can almost always think of ways that anything that shows up in <text> 
might show up also in <teiHeader> somewhere. Perhaps I prefer to express 
my <sourceDesc> in the form of Anglo-Saxon verse, for instance, and I 
want @xml:space="preserve" so that the half-lines line up properly.

Cheers,
Martin
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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)
Half-Baked Software, Inc.
(mholmes at halfbakedsoftware.com)
martin at mholmes.com