P4 to P5

[Lou-at-home]

I agree with Sebastian, both in not really grocking the significant 
difference between a URN and a URL, and in preferring a simple numeric 
identifier to one which doubles up as a date. For one thing, at least 3 
digits of the date  are going to be redundant.

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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> 
> Syd Bauman wrote:
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>>> I now imagine
>>>  <TEI xmlns="http://namespace.tei-c.org/" teiversion="5">
>>> how does that strike others?
>>
>> I'd still like to know if it makes sense to use a URN instead of a
>> URL, and if not, why not.
> 
> 
> let me be the first to come out and admit I don't really understand what 
> a URN, as opposed to a URL, is.......
> 
>> The version number is too imprecise. Although we prefer to avoid
>> doing it, we do make real changes between major releases. I'm in
>> favor of something along the lines of "P4:2002-05".
> 
> 
> I am in favour of simple numbering. its what most people do. This will 
> be major release 5.0, the revision will be 5.1, etc. why complicate it 
> with date notations? numeric versions have the BIG BIG advantage that 
> they can be read by software:
> 
>  <xsl: if test="/TEI/@teiversion &gt; 5.1">.....
> 
> sebastian