[tei-council] another High Noon proposal

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 10 Jan 2013, at 22:09, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> Ah yes, I had forgotten that we now have the ability to make things members of a class, and then tweak what that membership means a bit in some cases.

its powerful, dangerous and not even fully implemented... as you'll know if you watch the Jenkins logs :-{

> 
> Using the same trick to actually *remove* an attribute provided by the class (i.e. @url on binaryObject) is pretty mind-blowing though. Being in an att class means you get the attributes that class provides -- what sort of club allows you to claim you're a member of it even if you refuse to wear the club colours?

it's always been possible in ODD to do this. we're just letting you say you never even _smoked_ @url, let alone inhaled

when you see that <abbr> joins att.typed, but eschews what it considers the affectation of @subtype, does that
bother you slightly less?

seriously, if you think this is making a rent in the space-time continuum through which Evil may flow,
speak now, cos I have already used it in several places.
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