[tei-council] Options for freezing and/or archiving Lite

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-08-13 09:19 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 13/08/12 17:16, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>>
>> Would it be possible to create a version of TEI Lite that is constructed
>> entirely through inclusion, without any subsequent customization?
>
> Not sure what you mean by this, but if you mean the same as I do, then
> that's what we currently have. Lite specifies all and only the elements
> you want from a bunch of modules. The only other "customization" it does
> is to remove some otiose attributes.

I was thinking about the bulk of the documentation too. In other words, 
could the Lite documentation consist of a custom intro explaining what 
it is, then a set of inclusions (XInclude?) from other parts of the 
Guidelines. When I think about it, though, that's completely impractical.

Cheers,
Martin

> Didn't
>> we talk recently about having a sort of shortcut/conveniences module
>> that would provide tags such as <b> and <i>? A new TEI Lite could be
>> defined as consisting of the four base modules (or most of them), plus
>> the convenience module. Other people could use the convenience module in
>> their schemas too, if they wanted to.
>
> This seems like an entirely different project to me.



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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)