[tei-council] dating attributes

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou's Laptop wrote:
>
> That doesnt really help with interchange, since it means all bets are 
> always off.
> I'd rather have an attribute which reliably gives me a normalised 
> date, and another one which might require some fancy processing.
>
OK. but in that case, play it simple and replace all attributes with 
iso- and user- alternatives, don't
simultaneously try and be clever with attributes qualifying other 
attributes. 10 simple attributes
replacing old 5 simple attributes seems  better to me.

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