Re: list of changes / deprecations?

There is not a page listing deprecated features, but that might be a good idea. Release notes are to be found linked from  http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/, and a search on "deprecated" is likely to prove useful. 

All the best,
Hugh

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> On Mar 24, 2017, at 14:57, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Lou Burnard has just made me aware that a change in P5 has rendered an
> ODD document I wrote a little more than a year ago invalid.
> 
> This leads me to a couple of questions; if they are answered in
> documentation on the TEI-C web site, please point me to the relevant
> documents; I’m happy to RTFM if I can find TFM.
> 
> 
> 1 Is there a list, in the current text of P5, or elsewhere, of changes
> which will affect the validity of documents against the tei_all schema
> or against schemas generated using ODDs?  Or at least those changes
> which render invalid some documents which were previously valid?
> 
> I’m looking for a list one could scan to see whether and how one will
> need to change one's documents to bring them into harmony with the
> current version of TEI, a list which would tell me, for example, that
> the ‘status’ attribute is no longer accepted on the ‘elementSpec’
> attribute as of … (and perhaps give a pointer to the document in which
> this decision is explained or motivated).
> 
> In [1], there is some mention of listing such things in the release
> notes for a release of the Guidelines, but starting from [2] I have
> not yet succeeded in identifying anything that looks like release
> notes for any version of the Guidelines.  The page shown at [3]
> (linked to from the phrase “Releases of the TEI Guidlines”) makes me
> wonder whether by ‘release’, document [1] means only things like P1,
> P2, … P5.  In that case, we should expect the list of changes to
> appear only when the consortium issues a TEI P6.
> 
> [1] http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw27.xml
> [2] http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html
> [3] http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/TitlePageVerso.html
> 
> 
> 2 Is there a list on the TEI-C site of pending changes,
> e.g. deprecations whose term has not yet expired, which do not
> currently affect the validity of one's documents, but are expected to
> in the future?
> 
> I have used the site's search interface to search for 'deprecation'
> (which I believe is how I found document [1] above) but have not found
> a list of elements or attributes for which time is running out.  From
> the wording of [1], I suppose I could simply scan the TEI-L archives
> for the last few years, but I don't find myself willing to do that.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help readers of this list can give me.
> 
> 
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