[tei-council] attribute names used in classes which are duplicated on elements

[Martin Holmes]

Hi there,

On 13-01-08 09:13 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> As per FR 3567935, I have compiled a catalogue at
> of all the cases where an attribute name defined in a class is also used on an element.
> This happens 49 times. Each of them needs examining to see whether they can now be
> replaced with class membership and local override of the given attribute.
>
> you can see the catalogue as an editable spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhciBT9b4XaZdEQ1bmZ6emF0ck9GQU9sWDlFSlRkUFE
> (and with better formatting and links at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/duplatts.html).
>
> this raises many questions. A simple one:
>
>   <g>/@ref is pretty much the same as att.canonical/@ref, but if we
> add <gi> to att.canonical, it gains @key as well.  Is that a
> Good Thing or a Bad Thing? obviously we can have the status quo,
> by adding <attDef ident="key" mode="delete"/> to <g>

I don't think we should add @key to anything, given that we're thinking 
of deprecating it.

> I think I could go ahead and do 90% of these myself by common sense, but
> thats not sensible :-}. I suggest that we use that spreadsheet
> to look at some of these cases and add a decision/recommendation/vote
> to the first column. choices may be:
>
>     easy: make all elements members of class
>     hard: make elements members of class, but with adjustments (i.e. only having some attributes from class, overriding description)
>     harder: some elements only, needs careful thought
>     impossible: the attributes are definitely not the same beast
>
> I have some suggestions already
>
> Then at a second stage someone can go in and action each case.

One question I raised on the ticket was that with @type and @target, 
more than one class exists. Should we be aiming to collapse those 
classes into one?

Cheers,
Martin
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> Sebastian Rahtz
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> University of Oxford IT Services
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>

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)