[tei-council] list types and rends: bug 460

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Sun Dec 22 16:33:10 EST 2013


On 22/12/13 18:45, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>> if you want a glorious example of our madness, look at att.global.xml:
>>
>>                 <bibl n="   1">
>>                 <bibl n="   2">
>>                 <bibl n="   3”>
>>
>> what on earth are those spaces/tabs doing in @n, I wonder??
> That is very hideous. I couldn't bear it so I've removed them. But even
> more amusing is the following French example, in which although the
> nasty @n attributes remain, the @xml:base attribute which is supposed to
> be the point of the example has been deleted. Urg. Should I make up a
> phony @xml:base for that one?

That's really a very strange example, which I suspect is just a mistake. 
Since the point of the example is to demonstrate how xml:base works, not 
to show the weirdness that the definition of @n permits,  I cannot see 
any reason to keep them.



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