[tei-council] brooding about override of class attributes

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 29 Apr 2012, at 12:23, Lou Burnard wrote:

> Tricky. Clearly if someone deletes @type from att.typed they expect it 
> to disappear from all elements which inherit their @type from it. If 
> those elements inherit and subsequently modify it (which is your case) I 
> think on balance the same should apply

ok. the @mode='change'  kicks in after assessing the effect of the ODDs
class changes

> I can also anticipate people being puzzled by the fact that deleting 
> @type from att.typed does not remove from elements in which @type is 
> locally defined, but that's another question.


when we have this facility in place, we can remove those occurrences
neatly, so the puzzlement level will decline over time.

Sebastian