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[Martin Holmes]

On 12-12-11 07:33 AM, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> D'oh! Of course we do, otherwise the (very annoying) behavior I spotted
> in Oxygen a few weeks ago would never have happened!
>
> I have to say, I don't like it. When we have the conversation about
> default attributes, I think I'm going to argue in as many cases as
> possible for getting rid of them! :-)

+1 from me. I've been bitten by this too, doing a simple identity transform.

We would presumably want to retain the functionality for default values 
in the ODD infrastructure, since we offer this as a generic solution for 
non-TEI XML languages, but (if we went down this road) remove all 
defined default values from TEI specifications. Do I understand this 
correctly?

Cheers,
Martin

>
> On 11/12/2012 15:29, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>
>> On 11 Dec 2012, at 14:49, Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this "convention of the annotation" then something we might want to
>>> take advantage of, if we want to make default attribute values useful to
>>> at least some users?
>>>
>> we do already. its just that many people never see any use of it.
>> only oXYgen users running their transform within the editor get the added
>> magic.
>>
>>
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>

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Martin Holmes
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