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

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk
Sun Jan 13 15:56:04 EST 2013




> 
> 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?
Because the schema would also include new things. the scenario
Is that I need t keep using @targets cos my tool supports that, and I can't afford to change. I have my loads of docs using that markup. But I also want to use the new @magic markup.

Now you will say "tough titty. Change your tool and your old docs". I argue that's too harsh

> 
>> [1] http://olafstapledonarchive.webs.com/farfuturecalling.html
> 
> Thanks for that! Another website to TEI-ify...
> 

Remember he only died in 1950, so that's all still in copyright. Might affect how you use it. Roll n 2020.

Sebastian


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