P5 announcement on TEI-L?

[Sebastian Rahtz]

I append a possible FAQ about P5. This forms part of a larger document
which I am writing.

Can anyone spot any flaws in the following?

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In what follows, items tagged "***" have been implemented and
approved by the Council; items tagged "**" have been implemented
but not yet approved; items tagged "*" are incomplete.

1. What has changed in P5 documents?

  *** the root element is <TEI> not <TEI.2>
  *** all elements are in the namespace http://www.tei-c.org/P5/
  ** some attribute values are rationalized 
    eg "Y|N" is now "true|false"
  *** you can validate using DTD, RelaxNG schema or W3C Schema

2. What has changed in P5 stylesheets?

  *** all elements are in the namespace http://www.tei-c.org/P5/. All
    XSLT 1.0 stylesheets have to be changed

3. What has changed in the Guidelines?
  *** the old embedded DTD fragments are replaced (by default) with
   RelaxNG compact notation

4. Which modules are new or changed?

  * the writing systems chapter has been completely revised; WSDs are
    gone, in favour of Unicode througout
  * the chapter on tag set descriptions has been completely revised
  * the sections on linking, and multimedia, have been completely
revised
  * a chapter on manuscript descriptions has been added

5. What has changed in TEI extensions?
  
  ** all the internal class names have changed (eg a.global is
    attributes.class.global)
  * (hopefully) all elements are members of classes 
  ** the module file names have changed
  ** you should probably rewrite the extension in RelaxNG schema

6. What are the important internal changes?

  ** the namimg of classes, elements etc has been revised for
    readability
  ** all element names have been made unique across the TEI
  * (hopefully) all elements are members of classes 

7. What is the timetable?

  December 2004: public call for small changes
  January 2004: complete  revisions of internal language and seek 
council approval
  February/March 2004:  incorporate new/revised chapters
  April 2004: end of public call for small changes
  May 2004:  seek approval by council of new/revised chapters
  June-September 2004: public alpha review
  October 2004: public beta test
  December 2004: release of P5

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Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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