[tei-council] non TEI attribute namespace

[Fabio Ciotti]

I strongly support the idea that any element or attribute added to a
TEI customization must have its own namespace, for the practical
reasons stated by Martin, but for the sake of formal clarity, as well.

Ciao,

Fabio

2014-03-04 17:53 GMT+01:00 Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>:
> I think it would be better for interoperability and clarity if we
> required (or strongly advised) that all custom attributes be explicitly
> declared in a different namespace. For processors, this means that all
> unprefixed attributes, along with those prefixed attributes that are
> part of the standard schema, are known to be TEI, and all custom
> attributes can easily be distinguished because they are neither in the
> xml namespace nor in the empty namespace.
>
> It also makes it easier to group custom elements and custom attributes,
> because they'll presumably be in the same namespace(s).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 14-03-04 07:05 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> 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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