[tei-council] tagUsage/@render

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 21 Dec 2012, at 13:21, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:
> 
> I'm not in general in favour of extending this particular franchise : maybe a sentence or two of warning in the text would be useful ...
> 
> @rend is a hopeless case, but @rendition at least should be constrained to respect the usage of its target syntax, if only by a statement of intent.


do you mean that we need to tell people that

 <rendition xml:id="funny" scheme="css":>font-style:normal; font-style:italic</rendition>

is silly? or do you mean say that the content must be syntactically correct CSS?

Are you looking to protect against syntactic sin or semantic sin?
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