[tei-council] Should Roma be doing this?

[Syd Bauman]

While I'm not against improving our deprecation procedures, I'd be
happy to have the paper tiger attack <defaultVal> in the meantime.

But that said, I'm not sure <defaultVal> *should* be depreated to
extinction. I think it should just be far better documented to say
what it *means*. Since the underlying language of TEI is RELAX NG,
the default value is not much more than a suggestion to processors.
But our documentation doesn't say anything along these lines at all.

Shouldn't the Guidelines explain exactly what happens when an element
that has a default attribute value specified in its ODD is processed
by a DTD, RELAX NG, XML Schema, or non-validating processor? Or is
that getting too process-specific for text encoding guidelines?
(Right now, I'm leaning strongly towards "yes, we should explain
this".)

> > So because our current implementation of deprecation is
> > suboptimal we shouldn't use it? In fact you propose to deprecate
> > deprecation?
> 
> No, I am proposing that we implement deprecation properly. No paper
> tigers.