[tei-council] Lite

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk
Tue Sep 11 09:59:13 EDT 2012


On 11 Sep 2012, at 14:54, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> Do we think it might be a good idea to make a small song and dance about 
> the revision/updating/freezing/whatever  of TEI Lite on TEI-L?

yes. very much so, but I don't think we are agreed yet
on what we mean, or plan to do.

> Sfaict, our plan is to make no further substantive changes in the source 
> of the ODD, but to check its compatibility with future P5 releasess. If 
> it ceases to work in the future, the wrath of Birnbaum should be 
> considered to ensue. As such it's a usefu;l (if not unique) conscience 
> checker. Think of it as a canary in a cage...


I agree with this, but its not what several other folks proposed.
this is effectively no change to what happens now.

don't forget we have renamed the DTD/Schema, by the way,
so anyone with a stashed-away URL will lose Lite immediately …

I suspect a redirect may be in order
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