[tei-council] Guidelines build temporarily borked

[Martin Holmes]

On 14-07-30 04:23 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 30/07/14 12:19, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> On 30 Jul 2014, at 12:05, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Makes sense. So the proper solution is probably to declare a new
>>> superclass of att.global called att.styling or some such containing
>>> @rend @rendition @style and have att.global inherit that. That class can
>>> then be predeclared in the right place in ST.
>> No. Same problem would arise, because <list> overrides the class.
>>
>>
>
> eh? that can't be right! we don't want the revised definition of @rend
> for any other element, so why are we messing with the class at all?

And this suggests a broader problem. If it's not practical to override 
the declaration of @rend at the elementSpec level, then how are people 
going to do it in their own ODDs? Or is this somehow unique to the 
Guidelines processing? I don't see how it could be.

Cheers,
Martin