Charles Muller wrote:
> I must confess that I have not yet even looked at P5, out of the dread 
> of the task of having to redo all of my style sheets. I am wondering if 
> anyone has yet put together a summary of some of the basic changes that 
> need to be made?

your stylesheet will have three big changes:

  a) all the references to TEI element names need namespacing, ie 
prefixing with tei:. This is hard to automate (think of 
//p[1]/emph[@rend='foo']/@id)

b) the <xref> and <xptr> elements go, and all  linking is now
   by full URL. so target="foo" is now target="#foo". So you need
   to review code in that area

c) TEI.2 is now TEI - check all your XPaths.

You'll also need handlers for new objects like <choice> and <graphic>,
and review your <reg>, <corr> and friends if your texts use them.

You cannot write an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet which handles P4 and P5,
without it being unbelievably verbose. What I do is maintain
stylesheets in P5, and run a script to make them process P4. I am not
convinced its a good idea, mind; one of these days I will have to make
a more permanent split (possibly by freezing the P4 ones and only
enhancing the P5 ones).

I believe XSLT 2.0 might make a 2-in-1 stylesheet possible.
But I'll believe in that when there is more than one
implementation.
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