[tei-council] removing and renaming XML files

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 20 Apr 2012, at 15:18, Martin Holmes wrote:

> Better to break the links and fix them, I think, since we're winding up 
> to a "major" release, and if the tei_ prefix in anchors is included in 
> it, lots of existing links will break anyway.
> 
but the link to the _files_ mustn't change. i.e. it will still be
  DI-PrintDictionaries.html
not
  tei_DI-PrintDictionaries.html

> But this really ought to be a policy issue. Under what circumstances is 
> it acceptable to break existing links to a) pages in the Guidelines, and 
> b) anchors on pages?

a) not many, but if the alternatives are worse, so be it
b) when it seems sensible

> And when we do break them with a new release, what 
> are our obligations in terms of supporting the old links?


as much as is reasonably possible.

if all the tei_ exercise changes is anchors on pages, I'd not worry about it
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