[tei-council] Attributes without examples
Kevin Hawkins
kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
Sat Jan 5 19:34:18 EST 2013
On 12/29/12 1:03 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 29/12/12 17:58, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> A procedural question about this task ...
>>
>> Is it okay to copy an example from a chapter of the Guidelines into the
>> appropriate elementSpec or classSpec? That is, we're not concerned
>> about such duplicated examples falling out of sync in case we adjust one
>> and not another?
> There's ample precedent for that. Both the copying, and the failing to
> keep them in sync. :-(
Okay, but do you agree with Sebastian that we shouldn't do it when
adding new examples?
I can of course tweak an example from the chapter before inserting into
the spec, but that feels silly. If that's all I'm doing, why not keep
the example as is (albeit without a mechanism to keep them in sync)?
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