[tei-council] [Fwd: and then there's the TBOs question]

[David Sewell]

I think we would seriously alienate a large population of people in the
digital library community (and elsewhere) if we were to decree that in
P6 all the docXYZ elements were gone, or even deprecated.

There's a huge base of code, specifications, and procedurals out there
that assumes their existence, and converting all of that goes well
beyond a simple XSLT transform.

I don't think there's enough justification at this point for the break
with backward compabitibility that the merger would entail.

David

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Syd Bauman wrote:

> > 1. the elements docAuthor, docDate, docImprint, and docTitle
> > currently permitted only within a titlePage, should be made
> > available within msItem and msContents.
>
> Or, alternatively, the elements <docAuthor>, <docDate>, <docEdition>,
> <docImprint>, and <docTitle> should be eliminated, as they serve no
> useful purpose above and beyond <author>, <date>, <edition>,
> <imprint>, and <title> if they were permitted as children of
> <titlePage> (and <msItem> and <msContents>).
>
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