[tei-council] P5 Progress report

[Lou Burnard]

At our last conference call, council members were requested to read and 
comment on the schedule of work outlined in edw81, which gives brief 
characterizations of the state of each chapter of P5.

Since that date, some progress has been made on defining one particular 
global task: the "war on attributes". There is a new draft document for 
Council members to read on this topic at 
www.tei-c.org.uk/Drafts/edw86.xml which contains some general remarks 
about how attribute values and datatypes might be standardized in P5 
(these are just suggestions at the moment). It also contains a list of 
all the current "CDATA"-valued attributes together with a suggestion for 
how they  should be treated in P5. Council is particularly requested to 
review this list and comment.

Over the last month the bulk of my TEI time has been divided amongst the 
following activities:
1. revising teaching materials to use TEI P5 and developing some new 
material about ODDs (see www.tei-c.org.uk/Talks/OUCS/2005-02)
2. working on edw86
3. defining a proposed replacement for the current <index> element (I 
hope to circulate a brief discussion of that in the next day or so)
4. working with the ms description taskforce on some last minute 
revisions to chapter MS (now available in CVS)

I know that Syd has been busy  with the self-appointed workgroup 
revising biblStruct, but I have not yet been able to review that work.

Lou