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

[Lou Burnard]

On 13/01/13 19:26, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 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.

I think that's just silly. How would this be different from (or more 
useful than) a previous version of the schema in which the various 
deprecations had not yet taken effect?
I say when things are removed, they are removed. End of.


>
> 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.

Or a Fork?

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

Thanks for that! Another website to TEI-ify...