[tei-council] namespaces and customization

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 12/19/11 4:11 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 19 Dec 2011, at 08:58, James Cummings wrote:
>> TEI, unless these attributes are in a non-TEI namespace. So you could
>> add @my:type and @my:subtype to 'eg' and be perfectly TEI conformant,
>> but adding att.typed to 'eg' is an unclean change and thus should be
>> signalled by a namespace.
>
>
> Amen to that.
>
> Why do want @type on<eg>  anyway?  consider using the excellent<exemplum>  wrapper
> for the job instead.

I was just using the example given in P5 section 23.2.1.4 (#MDMDAL).  I 
didn't want to confuse the matter by introducing a different use case.

However, if @type on <eg> is nonsensical, then I think a revision of 
32.2.1.4 is in order.