[tei-council] xml-colon-thing

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:

>
>(That was "IDREFs", not "IDREFS" ... I hope we're not talking
>cross-purposes.)
>
oh, OK. either way, vanishingly few

><note>. But I could swear you had said it was important (for a
>variety of reasons, not the least of which would be your sanity) to
>alter the stylesheets all at once, not just the needed-for-Guidelines
>set. In which case you need to change the processing of every single
>IDREF or IDREFS attribute.
>
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i wonder if I currently allow for IDREFs :-}

>May be true, but it doesn't change the fact that it's still quite a
>lot of work. Besides, our experience with P4 demonstrates that
>examples need to be eyed by a human even if auto-validated.
>
>  
>
but we never formally validated the examples in P4 in situ, did we

>Either way. But if we do the "close for a week" method, we need to
>take a "snapshot" before we start messing around, to make backing out
>easy if something goes wrong.
>  
>
I'l think you find we use a version control system which looks after 
this for us :-}

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