[tei-council] xml-colon-thing

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:

>
>* Changing P5 so that it refers to xml:id= is a bit of a deal, as all
>  Sebastian's style-sheets need to be changed to match.
>  
>
this has to be done regardless. I am now happy to bite the
bullet

>* Changing P5 so that it uses XPointers to point to xml:id= instead
>  of IDREFs is a really big deal, as all Sebastian's style-sheets
>  need to be changed to match.
>  
>
I suspect there are so few uses of IDREFS that it won't be that
hard.

>* Changing P5 to do these things is itself a very significant change
>  (e.g., dozens to hundreds of examples need to be changed;
>
thats automated, if the examples are done right

> at least
>  10 chapters discuss pointing), so IMHO Council should be pretty
>  sure of it first, before we devote serious time and effort to it.
>  
>
indeed. but the Council accepted the principle in Ghent,
and asked for clarification in some areas, which has now been
given. so I don't see any reason to delay a decision

>Sebastian said he would not be ready to perform the needed changes to
>the style-sheets until at least December, at which time we either have
>to halt other production on P5 while these changes are made (my idea)
>or use Perforce to create a separate branch of P5 source and make the
>changes there, re-merging them when complete (Sebastian's idea).
>  
>
I'm ready to bring this forward a bit; I am also rather inclining
to your view now, that we should close P5 for a week and do
it in one big go.

>we should keep it in the
>backs of our minds as we move forward, so as to not do anything that
>would arbitrarily make it difficult to do so.
>  
>
agreed. I do have a P4 compat module as one of the ODD test files,
so I'd expect to roughly keep it in sync

sebastian