[tei-council] wot not choice?

[Lou Burnard]

For my sins, I have been re-reading the dictionary chapter (I am 
supposed to be giving a talk about it next week)
and am ASTONISHED to find that the section about "preserving the lexical 
and the typographic view"

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/DI.html#DIMVAV

nowhere mentions the possibility of using <choice>  ... Even more 
astonishing, it recommends using an attribute @orig to supply "the 
original form" which makes it seem like the war on attributes never took 
place.

This seems such a blatant inconsistency I cannot believe I am the first 
person to notice it. Can anyone defend this attribute ? At the very 
least there should be some warning about the consequences of adopting it 
if your original source contains things like <g>, to say nothing of 
mentioning the use of <choice> as a much saner mechanism.