extended pointers for P4

[John Unsworth]

At 11:57 PM 2/17/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>Let's have a quick poll - does anyone on this list use TEI
>extended pointers in their files? if so, would the switch
>to lower-case only ruin your life?

<p>Sorry, but I think at a minimum that's the sort of poll that would only be 
meaningful in the NEH/SGML-XML workgroup, not here in the council.  That 
won't happen in time for the P4 guidelines to go to press, so I would 
recommend that, in these cases and as a general principle, loosening the 
restrictiveness of P4 at this point is OK (e.g., whitespace optional), but 
tightening it (e.g., case sensitivity required) is not.

John