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

[Lou Burnard]

On 05/04/13 20:46, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
> On 13-04-05 10:38 AM, Syd Bauman wrote:
>> [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.
> TEI, or teiCorpus?
>
>    <assert test="not(descendant::deletedElement">
>           The deletedElement element was deprecated for several
> 	years, and was finally deleted in TEI release x.y.z.
>         </assert>

This would mean we gradually accumulate a list of deleted elements in 
the <TEI> spec. Ingenious. Let's hope we never need to delete the <TEI> 
element....