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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 13 Jan 2013, at 18:51, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>
 wrote:

> I suspect there will be gotchas, though. For instance I just renamed 
> att.sourced to att.edition; a Birnbaum module that attempted to restore 
> a deleted attribute to att.sourced would fail because it's not there any 
> more. We'd have to maintain the Birnbaum module carefully alongside the 
> main codebase, updating it to take account of changes like this.


Yes, it would take some careful thought on how to do it. But it seems worth a
try, a maintained schema which confirmed Birnbaumites could access. 

Lou will shudder when I now also suggest the FarFutureCalling [1] module,
which includes things we are considering adding to the TEI; an incubation
module, if you like.

Pythoneers will recall the "from future import xxx" directive.

[1] http://olafstapledonarchive.webs.com/farfuturecalling.html
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