[tei-council] Quick ODD question

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 16 May 2014, at 21:34, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:

> How do you make an attribute from an existing class required on an 
> element? For instance:
> 
> <elementSpec ident="foo" ns="http://www.example.com/ns">
> 
>   <attList>
> 
>     <attRef class="att.global" ident="xml:id"/>
> 
>   </attList>
> 
> </elementSpec>
> 
> Is there any way I can override the optional status of @xml:id in the 
> global class, to make it required on the new foo element, or do I have 
> to re-create it?

this is a bit like the one in <media>, i think

  <attList>
    <attDef ident="mimeType" usage="req" mode="change"/>
  </attList>

but your example uses <attRef>. hmm.  I dont think we allowed for what you want.
I’d probably just recreate something as trivial as @xml:id

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