[tei-council] Quick survey of defaultVals

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 7 Feb 2013, at 16:44, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>
 wrote:

> If I wanted to explicitly remove the default value, in my original example:
> 
>             <elementSpec ident="list" mode="change">
>                 <attList>
>                    <attDef ident="type" mode="change" usage="opt">
>                       <valList mode="add" type="closed">
>                          <valItem ident="ordered"/>
>                          <valItem ident="unordered"/>
>                       </valList>
>                    </attDef>
> 
>                 </attList>
>              </elementSpec>
> 
> would I do it simply by inserting this?
> 
> <defaultVal></defaultVal>?


<defaultVal mode="delete"/> is more expressive. whether that _works_, I am not sure.
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