[tei-council] state and event

[Lou's Laptop]

Amongst other things reported from the "geog" meeting at CCH a couple of 
weeks back, it was suggested that we would like to use <state> and 
<event> as generic states and events (rather than the current persState, 
placeState, orgState, etc.

As these names unfortunately collide with the existing <state> and 
<event> elements
 (which got there first) I am now proposing to rename the existing 
elements, unless anyone has very strong objections.

The existing <state> element (used only in the rather obscure context of 
the Header's <refsDecl>) is the easy one: I propose to change it to 
<refState>

The existing <event> element (used in the only slightly less obscure 
context of the chapter on spoken transcription) is  trickier to find a 
good replacement for.  Sebastian suggests <incident> which is almost 
right but a bit long winded.

Does anyone have better suggestions?