Dear TEI Community,
Today, Monday 20 January 2014, your TEI Consortium has released
TEI P5 Guidelines version 2.6.0 (Codename: Rosetta). This release
has involved some major changes: some are things the people will
notice, e.g. where we now enforce things the Guidelines have said
for a very long time (see publicationStmt below), and others
might not be noticed by most users but are helping us build
towards a more robust TEI future, e.g. more for 'pure ODD'.
Simultaneously we have improved some of the mechanisms through
which we manage the development of the Guidelines, e.g. with this
release we have moved to timing them after having given TEI-L
warning and encouraging the community to proofread the pending
release. (Thank you to all who sent in corrections.)
With this release we have a newly elected member of the TEI
Technical Council, Peter Stadler from the University of
Paderborn, who has acted as the release technician. As the
http://www.tei-c.org/ server moved to a new infrastructure since
the last release we suspected that there might be some problems
in our scripts automating the release. Even though we tested
everything we thought could go wrong, there were indeed some
minor problems that delayed the release slightly. Peter managed
solve the problems with the dedicated help of the TEI Technical
Council, especially that of Sebastian Rahtz and Martin Holmes to
whom we are all indebted.
As always, please do report bugs and make feature requests for
changes to the Guidelines or its other outputs (preferably via
the SourceForge site) since this is how the TEI improves. The
updated version of the TEI Guidelines are available from all the
usual places (such as the TEI website
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html).
The TEI P5 version 2.6.0 release notes are below, but also available at
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-2.6.0.html.
James Cummings
Chair, TEI Technical Council
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TEI P5 version 2.6.0 release notes
This version of the TEI Guidelines introduces new features and
resolves a number of issues raised by the TEI community. As
always, the majority of these changes and corrections are a
consequence of feature requests or bugs reported by the TEI
community using the SourceForge tracking system. If you find
something you think needs to change in the TEI Guidelines,
schemas, tools, or website, please submit a feature request or
bug ticket athttp://tei.sf.net/for consideration. Lists ofclosed
bugs
<http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/search/?q=status%3Aclosed-wont-fix+or+status%3Aclosed-rejected+or+status%3Aclosed-out-of-date+or+status%3Aclosed-accepted+or+status%3Aclosed-works-for-me+or+status%3Aclosed+or+status%3Aclosed-duplicate+or+status%3Aclosed-invalid+or+status%3Aclosed-fixed>andclosed
feature requests
<http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/search/?q=status%3Aclosed-wont-fix+or+status%3Aclosed-later+or+status%3Aclosed-rejected+or+status%3Aclosed-out-of-date+or+status%3Aclosed-accepted+or+status%3Aclosed-remind+or+status%3Aclosed+or+status%3Aclosed-duplicate+or+status%3Aclosed-invalid+or+status%3Aclosed-fixed>are
available on the site.
Some of the more noticeable changes inthis release
<http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html>include:
* Footnotes in the Guidelines now appear in a popup box when
you click on them, rather than causing a jump to the bottom
of the page. (This function depends on JavaScript; if you
have JS turned off, the old behaviour will still work.)
* The prose restriction that
the<pubPlace>,<address>,<idno>,<availability>,
and<date>children of<publicationStmt>occur in that order has
been removed.
* The content model of<publicationStmt>has been updated to
reflect the restrictions detailed in the prose of
section2.2.4 Publication, Distribution, Licensing, etc.
<http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/HD.html#HD24>.
For more information on this please
seehttp://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/PublicationStmt-Changes.
* <stage>now claims membership of att.placement (and thus gets
the@placeattribute) as
perhttps://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/476/.
* <docDate>is now available as a child
of<dateLine>(https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/472/),
and the content models of<signed>and<salute>have been
loosened
(https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/433/;https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/478/)
to allow more flexibility in the‘top’‘tail’of sections
(prompted by experience in EEBO TCP)
* <l>is now allowed in the<trailer>
* Usage of@corresphas been clarified
(https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/506/).
* The value of the@matchPatternattribute is now defined as W3C
XPath syntax rather than W3C XML Schema Language
(https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/432/). This
allows for more powerful regular expressions.
* @perfon<tech>now has the datatype 1+ data.pointer, instead of
data.enumerated (http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/524/).
* Support for ‘pure ODD’: it is now possible to define content
models using TEI XML constructs only, as an alternative to
the use of RELAX NG. This change is discussed further in a
paper by Burnard and Rahtz presented at2013's ACM Document
Engineering conference <http://www.doceng2013.org/programme>.
Support for the new syntax in ODD processing scripts is
incomplete, however, and not yet fully tested.
* Use of the element<valDesc>throughout the TEI specifications
code was rationalised: mostly this involved removal of
redundant commentary, but in some cases element or attribute
descriptions have been extended or modified.
* A new<abstract>element has been added to support descriptive
metadata about a ‘born-digital’ item (such as a journal
article in a review) to be stored in the TEI Header
perhttps://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/471
* @namehas been made optional (previously required)
on<relation>as
perhttps://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/467/since a
Schematron test is in place to check whether one
of@name,@ref, or@keyis available.
* <forest>and<forestGrp>,<colloc>and others are examples of
elements which used to have locally-declared@typeattributes
which benefit from the ability to now modify class-provided
attributes locally to the element. They now claim membership
of att.typed (and thus get@typeand@subtypeattributes).
Similarly<desc>is now also a member of att.typed as
perhttps://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/473/.
* The<s>element has been modified to not allow it to self-nest
as perhttps://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/578
There are also some changes to the way the Council is managing
the Guidelines:
* Pre-release versions of the TEI P5 development tree are now
tagged as ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ in their version information.
* In preparation for a program to get translations of reference
documentation up to date, all<desc>and<gloss>elements have
been dated. This allows us to easily generate lists of
translated blocks which need revising.
* More examples were added or corrected in this release and
improvements to the overall way examples are maintained is
under consideration by the TEI Technical Council.
In addition, the XSL stylesheets which provide processing of TEI
ODD files for Roma and OxGarage have been updated, notably
providing better support for multi-namespace ODD. The Stylesheets
are being maintained separately from the Guidelines and are
athttps://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets.
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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford
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