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

[Martin Holmes]

On 13-04-06 01:24 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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....

Of course that now gives us the problem of deciding after how long we 
should delete the Schematron warning for a deleted element...

Cheers,
Martin