#151 default values on optional attributes

[Elli Mylonas]

TEI has a number of elements that have optional attributes with default values, for example <p> has an optional @part, which has the default value "N". These attributes can crop up and cause problems when copying using XML aware processors, for example, perhaps also in other cases. There are settings in Oxygen and flags in commandline Saxon -expand:(on|off) for avoiding exlicit insertion of default values. However, isn't it sort of strange to have default but optional values?

perhaps TEI will also do something about this. Comments?

[Hugh A. Cayless]

This is being gradually done in the TEI by Syd and Martin Holmes, I believe.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Elli Mylonas ellimylonas@users.sf.net
wrote:

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• [bugs:#151] https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/bugs/151/ default values
  on optional attributes*

Status: unread
Group: future
Created: Tue Aug 16, 2016 07:47 PM UTC by Elli Mylonas
Last Updated: Tue Aug 16, 2016 07:47 PM UTC
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TEI has a number of elements that have optional attributes with default
values, for example

has an optional @part, which has the default
value "N". These attributes can crop up and cause problems when copying
using XML aware processors, for example, perhaps also in other cases. There
are settings in Oxygen and flags in commandline Saxon -expand:(on|off)
for avoiding exlicit insertion of default values. However, isn't it sort of
strange to have default but optional values?

perhaps TEI will also do something about this. Comments?

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[Elli Mylonas]

Thank you, I was looking for evidence in the TEI github with little success as I remember the conversation.

[Hugh A. Cayless]

If you search the issues for "defaultVal" you'll see some of the work
that's been done and that's underway.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Elli Mylonas ellimylonas@users.sf.net
wrote:

Thank you, I was looking for evidence in the TEI github with little
success as I remember the conversation.

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• [bugs:#151] https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/bugs/151/ default values
  on optional attributes*

Status: unread
Group: future
Created: Tue Aug 16, 2016 07:47 PM UTC by Elli Mylonas
Last Updated: Tue Aug 16, 2016 07:47 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

TEI has a number of elements that have optional attributes with default
values, for example

has an optional @part, which has the default
value "N". These attributes can crop up and cause problems when copying
using XML aware processors, for example, perhaps also in other cases. There
are settings in Oxygen and flags in commandline Saxon -expand:(on|off)
for avoiding exlicit insertion of default values. However, isn't it sort of
strange to have default but optional values?

perhaps TEI will also do something about this. Comments?

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[Elli Mylonas]

report back after TEI meeting so we have a status report and close

[Elli Mylonas]

I've conferred with Syd and this is in progress for the TEI. We should wait for them to fix it. Can keep track of progres on TEI git issue is.