[tei-council] example for TEI lite P5

[Laurent Romary]

Should we see the revision of U5 (TEI light) as part of the short term  
agenda?
In any case, to answer the question, I think the council is  
responsible of the editorial maintenance of U5.
Laurent

Le 24 oct. 08 à 10:22, Lou Burnard a écrit :

> Syd Bauman wrote:
>>> Looking over the Chinese revision of TEI lite p5 we noticed that
>>> at 19.3:
>>> <language<http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-exemplars/html/teilite.doc.html#language 
>>> >characterizes
>>> a single language or sublanguage used within a text.
>>> an example is needed. [sic]
>>> An example seems to be missing. Do you want to add this?
>>>
>>
>>
> If you suggest one, Marcus, I would be pleased to do so. You can in  
> any
> case add one into your translation!
>> Hi Marcus! Good to hear from you. I hope to see you in London, no?
>>
>> Thanks for noticing this, but no, I don't think we want an example
>> here. The fact that <langUsage> and <language> are in Lite at all is,
>> IMHO, a corrigible error. There is nothing light about them. So I
>> think the correct solution would be to remove the entire discussion,
>> rather than add an example.
>>
>>
>
> This rather raises the question of who is or should be responsible for
> editing and maintaining the content of TEI U5 though. The discussion  
> of
> <language> etc. was originally introduced into the text because it
> complemented the discussion of the @lang attribute, whic h definitely
> needs to be included there, and also because in P4 at least you really
> couldn't get far with non-English texts without using them in your
> header. I  would find it difficult to justify whipping them ou
> http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/XMLedition/URG/cdifhd.html#hdpdtct now,
> without reviewing many other components. possibly now regardable as
> non-light.
>
> I am CCing to the TEI Council for comment.
>
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