P5 announcement on TEI-L?

[C. Perry Willett]

Did we decide that attribute values will no longer contain CDATA?

Perry Willett
Main Library
Indiana University
pwillett at indiana.edu

<p>On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, 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?
> 
> *******************************************************************
> 
> 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
> -- 
> Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
> OUCS
> 
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