Hi there,

> At 12:02 PM 8/24/2006, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>> TEI Conformance means "conforming to the latest Guidelines". 
>> Obviously. As opposed to what?

I'm sure you don't mean that the way it sounds. I'm still using P4 for 
some projects, and I'm using it on the basis that it is a formal 
standard that is used by lots of other projects. It's different from P5, 
and P5 is better in many ways, but to me P4 is still a standard, and I'm 
certainly not going to go back and convert all my P4 projects to P5 
(unless there's a compelling reason the project would benefit directly). 
XHTML 1.0 Strict is not less of a standard because 1.1 exists, just as 
GPL 2.0 will not be less of a licence because 3.0 gets released. I would 
regard it as rather a failure of TEI if P4 became somehow deprecated by 
the Council, and I would have less faith that P5 -- after all, P6 will 
be along one day.

So I think it's important to have a final, formal release date, as a 
point at which the guidelines and schemas for P5 are fixed, so we all 
know what it is we're conforming to. One thing preventing people from 
moving to P5, perhaps, is the sense that the guidelines are still in 
flux, and we may have to be making changes to our markup to keep up with 
changes. I for one don't want to "conform to the latest Guidelines"; I 
want to conform to the final specification for a particular format, once 
and for all. P4 at least is no longer changing, and that in itself is a 
very attractive feature.

Of course this won't stop me from bugging you about adding SVG or 
<appInfo> to P5 :-)

Cheers,
Martin

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