[tei-council] another High Noon proposal

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 10 Jan 2013, at 22:21, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:
> 
> Well, yes, metaphors apart it does seem to me that if we allow attributes to be deleted from some members of an attribute class, but not others, we are rather calling into question just what "membership of an attribute class" means.
> 

It's like a macro; its a convenient, named, way of doing a set of common things. you can temper it by saying eg "yes I want the breakfast menu,
but my standard order is to hold the eggs".  if the breakfast menu tomorrow gains an extra ingredient (black pudding), you'll get your
usual eggless dish, but with the black pudding. sorry about more metaphors.

so if we add @zdepth to att.media, <binaryObject> gets it, even though it opts out of @url

I do appreciate your point; but I thought this was inherent in the proposal of about a year ago which
was implemented in the summer, so it is scary to have it brought into doubt now.

Other readers need to get their heads round the discussion, and decide whether they
are as unnerved as Lou by this. If so, some rapid backtracking is in order.
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