[tei-council] namespaces and customization

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 4 Jan 2012, at 00:41, Kevin Hawkins wrote:

> At the least I would like to see the intention clarified in P5, and at 
> the most I would like us to revisit the intention.  I'm not sure the 
> intention is wrong, but I'm not sure it's right either.  If we are 
> revisiting the intention, it would be worth talking to Bryan 
> Pytlik-Zillig and/or others who have done work on normalizing documents. 
>  I wonder whether they would find use of a new namespace useful or a 
> hassle.

surely large-scale normalization projects such as that which B P-Z
works on should be the last to make casual modifications to TEI, however
simple? they have the time and the resource to do it right, ie work out
with the TEI what the best way to work is, and to get changes in the TEI
if needed. As TCP is doing now (belatedly, sorry, Paul and Rebecca!).
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