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

[Syd Bauman]

[Catching up on mail ... expect quite a few responses to old e-mail
 from me in the near future.]

At first glance, I like this idea. I wonder where in the Guidelines
source ODD files we would put the Schematron code for an element that
is not being defined.

> Sebastian suggested using Schematron to warn when an element is
> deprecated, but that's probably not so good because it will annoy
> people still using it. However, we could use Schematron _after_ a
> deprecated element is finally deleted, to trap for its presence and
> explain that it was previously deprecated and is now gone. That
> would only hit people once, when they update their schema after the
> deletion, and it would provide a helpful explanation for a
> situation which might otherwise take them by surprise or puzzle
> them.