[tei-council] http://purl.org/tei/fr/3519866 (@rend datatype)

[Lou Burnard]

On 05/07/12 18:09, Martin Holmes wrote:
s wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think that's the only solution. Surely @style (content = CSS)
>>> would solve the problem for those who want to use inline CSS?
>>
>> bother me a bit that we special-case CSS with this; and it is also not
>> clear
>> whether you can have @rend _and_ @style, ie what are precedence
>> and inheritance rules?
>
> That's up to the project, surely. Most would presumably only use one or
> the other. If you're wondering what the default TEI stylesheets should
> do, then that's another question; but the stylesheets already have to
> guess at what any given value(s) appearing in @rend are supposed to
> mean. I'd be inclined to say that if @style is present, then ignore
> @rend, but you could also combine the two. Redundancy in an HTML @style
> attribute is ignored, isn't it?
>


I can't believe we're seriously considering adding a THIRD possible way 
of specifying rendition!

But if we are, did you mean @html:style or @tei:style?

Presumably the former is always a possibility (thus giving us FOUR ways 
of saying 'output this in "Incredulous Bold"')