[tei-council] Deleting an attribute from its class, but reinstating it on an element

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 26 Feb 2014, at 21:09, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> The reason <attRef> is not very well documented is that neither 
> Sebastian nor I can ever remember what it's actually for.
> 

It is used extensively internally to get at components of attribute classes. When
<p> asks to delete the @rend attribute, we can’t any longer just point at
“att.global”, we have to break that down into separate pointers to the bits within
"att. global" that <p> has decided to keep. That’s what <attRef> does - 
more granular access to the parts of an attribute class.

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Sebastian Rahtz      
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