January 2019 - Tei-council - lists.tei-c.org

Stylesheets: rub out tei: prefix?
by Syd Bauman 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

The current odd2odd.xsl (like most of the stylesheets) uses the explicitly bound namespace prefix "tei:" in XPaths. I am inclined to use @xpath-default-namespace and get rid of them. I think our XPaths are often already long enough to wrap around even a wide screen twice, and things like "ancestor::tei:teiHeader" are just harder to read. Please vote (fast): 1) I very much want to get rid of the "tei:" prefix in XPaths 2) I prefer to get rid of them, but don't care much 3) Makes no difference to me, mate 4) I prefer to keep them, but don't care much 5) I very much want to keep the "tei: prefix in XPaths In case you're curious, there are approximately 517 tei: 38 rng: 15 xs: 5 a: 4 xml: 2 sch: prefixes in odd2odd.xsl. (Looking only in attr values.)

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Release timeline
by Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Dear Council, I hope you had some relaxing holidays and I wish you a happy new year! Thankfully, Elli and Hugh agreed to postpone the release date to January 29. This will give us a bit more time to finish some open issues. This is our suggested timeline: Refridge: Jan 17 (Thursday) - no major changes to the schema should be done after that; minor changes (wording, typos, examples, etc.) are fine. Freeze: Jan 23 (Wednesday) - no more changes can be done in the dev branch Create release branch: Jan 24 (Thursday) - after that, only minor changes (typos) can be done in the release branch Release: Jan 29 (Tuesday) I added the dates to the Google calendar. Our next Council call is between refridge and freeze, on January 18. Best wishes, Martina

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starting rub-a-dub-dub
by Syd Bauman 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Exactly 1 year to the day after abandoning the project, I am restarting it. Yay! New branch for this work will be called sydb-radd. First question: is there any difference between the 'master' and 'release-3.4.0' branches of TEI? Any significant difference? And, perhaps more importantly, how would I go about asking `git` that question? (Why, you ask? Because in order to test the Stylesheets they need to be building against some version of TEI P5. I'd like to use a local version so I don't have to wait the extra second or so it takes to download it every time I test the Stylesheets. Besides, it would be nice to know definitively which version I am testing against.)

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