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[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 11 Dec 2012, at 17:52, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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. 

Or we could just not pass them on to the schemas. 

The data performs a valuable function. To take a simple example,
it tells you that attDef/@usage defaults to "opt", which is important.
It's just less clear how to make it available to a processor these days
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