[tei-council] next release

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:
>  It recommends deprecation as a strategy to get around interim small 
> minor breakage.  So, if say we want to change @foo's datatype (in a 
> way that breaks existing instances) then we introduce @bar with that 
> datatype and note that @foo is now deprecated.  Part of the major 
> revision for P6 in a few years then, one must assume, will be the 
> removal of all the deprecated elements/attributes/classes?
if we are going to record deprecation, then we had better extend the ODD
language now to support that :-} In practice, we can use probably use 
@usage for that
on <elementSpec> and possibly <attDef>, but it may be safer to add 
something new.

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