[tei-council] p5 archaeology

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 11 Mar 2014, at 18:24, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> One of the coolest things we've introduced in the last few years is the 
> @source attribute on <schemaSpec>, which enables one to regenerate a 
> schema from a specific version of TEI P5. The ODD processor in Oxygen, 
> for example, takes a value for @source like "tei:x.y.z" and looks for 
> the file p5subset.xml in the appropriate source directory at 
> http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P5 
> <http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P5/1.2.0/xml/tei/odd/>
> 
> HOWEVER, I have just discovered that this file is missing from the 
> source directories prior to 1.2.0  (november 2008) i.e. from releases 
> 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0 :-(

yes. it wasn’t a standard part of things back then.
> 
> Is this an oversight? It's not a disaster, obviously, but it seems a 
> pity that we can't go back in time before 2008. How would one go about 
> retrofitting a p5subset.xml?

It is the P5 source in a single file, with the chapters omitted to save space.
You could run (current) Utilities/subset.xml on the source and bob’s your uncle.
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Sebastian Rahtz      
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