[tei-council] that black bat night has flown

[Lou]

Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> This is great. Delighted to see <surplus> in there.
> 
> It looks, however, as though no change has been made to certainty, so I 
> assume that even the minor guidelines tweak we proposed has been neglected?

Not neglected -- deliberately left to one side till we've had a chance 
to discuss the wider context

> 
> Obviously it's too late to change this now, so I'm unsure how to 
> proceed. I proposed that this minor change in definition be made (making 
> default context of @match = current element's parent) which would 
> neither (a) break current practice (if there even is any), nor (b) 
> prejudice council coming up with a better solution at the next 
> f2f--which most people see to feel we need to anyway. No one objected at 
> the time, as far as I could tell, nor since.

I may be misremembering, but I thought that we did discuss what the 
default should be, and I thought we decided it should be the current 
node. We may well have been wrong, but I would rather not change 
something like that twice.

> 
> If there is a general agreement to include this in the next release (and 
> therefore the dev version), then we at EpiDoc can at least customize our 
> usage safe in the knowledge that we're not straying from the fold. 
> Otherwise, we're going to have to come up with our own solution in the 
> meantime, which is a less ideal outcome (both from EpiDoc's and TEI's 
> perspective).

I look forward to the discussion...

> 
> Any reactions? Even an objection would be useful...
> 
> G
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :
>> and TEI 1.5.0 is now released on Sourceforge, as Debian packges, and   
>> on www.tei-c.org
>>
>> god bless all who sail in her.
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>> Sebastian Rahtz
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