P5 announcement on TEI-L?

[Lou Burnard]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:30, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 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?
> 

It should be phrased differently: not "this has changed" but "it is
proposed to introduce the following changes". Even those changes which
the Council has already accepted in principle cannot be said to have
changed till we have a release version of P5.

<p><p>> *******************************************************************
> 
> 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.

<p>Might be clearer if we had a status column: "endorsed by Council",
"experimentally implemented", "awaiting input from workgroup"
> 

> 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
> 

Mention the mirror-attribute-to-child-element modification?
 

> 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

Terminology has changed. e.g. "module" rather than "tagset"

We are proposing to abolish the distinction between mixed/general.

We are proposing to abolish the ability to have identically-named
elements with different properties in different modules.

<p>> 
> 4. Which modules are new or changed?
> 

<p>>   * the writing systems chapter has been completely revised; WSDs are
>     gone, in favour of Unicode througout

The WSD has been abolished, and the chapter on Character Encoding
revised accordingly. A mechanism for documenting use of non-Unicode
characters is proposed. See further the documents produced by the CE
workgroup at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/CE/

<p>>   * the chapter on tag set descriptions has been completely revised

to form the basis of a new module for technical writing

>   * the sections on linking, and multimedia, have been completely
> revised

awaiting input from the SO workgroup; see further documents at etc etc

>   * a chapter on manuscript descriptions has been added

awaiting input from the MS workgroup; see further documents at etc etc

>  * the chapter on Feature Structure representation has been revised in conjunctyion with thre ISO activity; see further the 
documents at etc etc

<p>Add a reference to the corrigible errors document (EDw77) which lists
all minor changes proposed or actually implemented, or should do when
Syd has finished with it

<p>> 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
> -- 

Ah the endless possibilities of porcine aviation...

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