[tei-council] next release

[James Cummings]

Lou Burnard wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
> 
>> <desc type="deprecated">Deprecated.  This element has been replaced by 
>> the <gi>foo</gi> element and will be removed at TEI P6</desc>
>>
> 
> Tag abuse. the @type of a <desc> would have values such as "verbose", 
> "short", etc. The deprecated property applies to the element itself, not 
> the description.

Yeah I worried about that as I typed it...

> If we really want to do this (and it does seem a bit odd to me to be 
> formalising deprecation in a formal description), the place to do this 
> is in the <remarks> element. That at any rate is where we did it last 
> time: cf the @hand attribute on <hand> in the P4 Guidelines -- a pretty 
> clear precedent.

Then it seems we have a precedent, and that is the way to do it.

-James

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