[tei-council] "soft deprecation": use @status='deprecated' ?

[Sebastian Rahtz]

I'm pretty much with you and Martin - there's deprecation, and thats it. no hard and soft complications
and worries.

I'm all for formalizing things like this. ie if we decide something is deprecated, set a time limit on it
(12 months? 2 years?) after which it moves to a module called "backwardcompatibility" which
is not included by default. We could implement that for the release next autumn. the new
ability to say @mode on source provides a convenient mechanism,possibly (I havent thought
through the details).
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