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

[Lou Burnard]

On 13/01/13 20:56, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> 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

But chances are my old tool won't be able to do anything with the new 
@magic so why would I bother? Or if I want to make it do so, then I 
might as well teach it not to use old @targets.

  I really think this is a case of a solution looking for a problem...