[tei-council] non TEI attribute namespace

[James Cummings]

My reading of the Conformance section leaves me feeling that it should be in a new namespace but that is just a gut feeling.

James


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Dr James Cummings, Academic IT Services, University of Oxford


-------- Original message --------
From: Lou Burnard
Date:2014/03/04 15:05 (GMT+00:00)
To: ""
Subject: [tei-council] non TEI attribute namespace

Alexei Lavrentev, whom some Council members know, asked me a good
question when I was teaching ODD in Lyon last week.

"What I did not understand is whether adding a zero-namespace attribute
to a TEI element
(e.g. lg/@asonancia) is
a) ok, if the attribute is declared in the ODD ;
b) not forbidden but is not a good practice ;
c) is not conformant. "

To expand on this a bit, all TEI attributes are in the empty namespace
and so there's no formal reason why my ODD should not declare a new
attribute and place that also in the empty namespace. Do we think that
that is perfectly OK?  It will of course be valid according to the
schema my ODD generates, but may upset other TEI processors which are
foolish enough to expect to see only TEI-defined attributes.

Of course, I can be squeaky-clean  by placing my new attribute in my own
namespace, and I will be required to if it has a name already used by
the TEI. But if neither of these is the case, am I still TEI conformant?




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