[tei-council] Possible bad bug in attribute classes?

[Lou Burnard]

Oooh that sounds like a definitely corrigible error

How come we didnt notice it till now?


On 27/10/14 15:56, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I'm looking at these two attribute classes:
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> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.naming.html>
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> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.personal.html>
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> They're both members of att.canonical, so they both inherit (e.g.) @key from att.canonical. But att.personal is also a member of att.naming, meaning that e.g. @key is inherited twice; this results in broken schemas for elements which are members of att.personal (<name> and friends) because they have @key defined through two separate routes.
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> Am I right in thinking that att.personal should _not_ be a member of att.canonical because it already inherits that membership through its membership of att.naming? If so, we have a fairly bad error in the current release, and we need to fix it.
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> I have an ODD which generates the error if required.
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> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> Martin Holmes
> mholmes at uvic.ca
> martin at mholmes.com
> mholmes at halfbakedsoftware.com