[tei-council] teilite.dtd standin

[Kevin Hawkins]

Looks good.

On 10/26/2012 4:37 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Everyone happy if I plonk this in the appropriate place on the TEI website?
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> What's happened to the file teilite.dtd ?
>
> At Release 2.2.0 of TEI P5 the TEI Lite customization was renamed
> tei_lite, for two reasons. Firstly, for compatibility with all the
> other TEI customizations; secondly, to signal that this version of TEI
> Lite is constructed in a different way from preceding versions.
>
> TEI Lite was first defined in 1996, and has been very widely
> disseminated. Consequently there are now  many many, often mutually
> incompatible, files called "teilite.dtd" around on the internet.
> Some of these are TEI P4 files, some are earlier TEI P5 versions, and
> there has been no systematic use of version numbering to distinguish
> them.
>
> In this new version, the schema is defined in a way that is more
> independent of changes in the underlying TEI P5 infrastructure.
> As of this release, the TEI undertakes to maintain the current state
> of TEI Lite unchanged, and to validate its compatibility with future
> TEI P5 releases.
>
> LB, for TEI Technical Council
> 27 Oct 2012
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