Current tagdocs documentation (in the Documentation Elements chapter) mostly addresses ODD authors, and is quite vague when it comes to instructions for those creating ODD processors. If this chapter is to be the ODD documentation locus, then it needs one or more sections addressed to creators of ODD processors; if not, then another place for this documentation should be specified.
Once this is available, two decisions made at today's TEI Council meeting can be added there:
- When a class which defines an attribute is deleted, or an attribute is deleted from that class, all subsequent overrides/customizations of that attribute (in subclasses or elementSpecs) should automatically disappear.
- When an attribute is overridden multiple times, those customizations should apply in order:
a) Any customization in a subclass of the original attribute class should be applied; then
b) Any customization of the attribute in an <elementSpec> which is a member of that class should be applied to the result of a).
Current tagdocs documentation (in the Documentation Elements chapter) mostly addresses ODD authors, and is quite vague when it comes to instructions for those creating ODD processors. If this chapter is to be the ODD documentation locus, then it needs one or more sections addressed to creators of ODD processors; if not, then another place for this documentation should be specified.
Once this is available, two decisions made at today's TEI Council meeting can be added there:
a) Any customization in a subclass of the original attribute class should be applied; then
b) Any customization of the attribute in an
<elementSpec>which is a member of that class should be applied to the result of a).