[tei-council] Guidelines build temporarily borked

[Martin Holmes]

On 14-07-30 08:37 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 30 Jul 2014, at 16:18, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>
>> This leads me to ask something which has been puzzling me for a while:
>> in the context where you're overriding the declaration of an attribute
>> from a class, what is the difference between @mode="change" and
>> @mode="replace"? In the past, I've come across situations in which the
>> latter works where the former doesn't.
>
> you may just be meeting errors in the implementation. the distinction is clear, surely?
> in mode=“replace”, the whole unit is used as you supply it. in mode=“change”, each
> part of the unit will be checked to see if its to be replaced, otherwise the original
> is used.

Presumably the granularity for this is (for instance) a complete valList 
-- in other words, if you supply a valList with @mode="change" on the 
<attDef>, your values will replace the originals, not be merged with them?

Cheers,
Martin

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