[tei-council] logical madness in class attribute inheritance

[Sebastian Rahtz]

We have 4 attribute classes which define the attribute "type":

../Source/Specs/att.entryLike.xml:    <attDef ident="type" usage="opt">
../Source/Specs/att.interpLike.xml:    <attDef ident="type" usage="rec">
../Source/Specs/att.textCritical.xml:    <attDef ident="type" usage="opt">
../Source/Specs/att.typed.xml:    <attDef ident="type" usage="opt">

This is, frankly, bonkers. An element can freely be a member of all four classes,
and then what?

I have met this while fixing the local override of class attributes, and
find that if an element is in both classes, and overrides @type, I have no idea which one
it is overriding!

Sadly, I have thereby got the P5 build in a broken state because of ambiguities
here.
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