Re: [tei-council] Fwd: [tei:bugs] #749 fatal bug in 2.8.0 apropos att.global.rendition

Yeah, a 2.8.1 release would probably be very sensible. Even though I personally think DTDs should be quietly forgotten about. There hasn't been much repo activity post-release, I think. Is there anything we'd need to back out before releasing 2.8.1? When can 2.8.1 happen? This right here shows us why better branch discipline might be a Good Thing. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:

Do we need a 2.8.1 to be done fairly quickly for this?

This really is my fault, but I must admit I had no idea what @predeclare was about; I was assuming the regular tests would pick up anything problematic, and I had no trouble working with @rend and @rendition in my projects for several months before release. I don't use DTDs, of course.

Cheers, Martin

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tei:bugs] #749 fatal bug in 2.8.0 apropos att.global.rendition Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:19:19 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: Ticket 749 <749@bugs.tei.p.re.sf.net> To: Ticket 749 <749@bugs.tei.p.re.sf.net>

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** [bugs:#749] fatal bug in 2.8.0 apropos att.global.rendition**

**Status:** open **Group:** AMBER **Created:** Tue Apr 14, 2015 05:19 PM UTC by Sebastian Rahtz **Last Updated:** Tue Apr 14, 2015 05:19 PM UTC **Owner:** nobody

I am afraid the `<classSpec>` at.global.rendition is missing the vital attribute predeclare="true". I have committed the appropriate change to fix it.

This means that any ODD which redefines @rend, @rendition etc is going to fail when it comes to making a DTD. You may now formally curse the day DTDs were invented.

I might note that a few existing ODD users are going to be mighty confused when they find their code to change @rend globally simply fails to work these days. In retrospect, it would have been good to highlight this in the release notes.

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