On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Binkley, Peter wrote:
For those of us who are new to TEI (ok, just me, then), would someone care to gloss this? P5? Janus tags?
The "P" numbers are the versions of the published TEI spec. I can't now remember what it stands for ('proposal'?). P3 ('the green books') is for most purposes the reigning version, since P4 ('the slate-blue books?') is really only a kind of bug-fix update of P3. P5 promises to be a much more radical revision.
'Janus tags,' I think, is TEI slang for two-faced tags--pairs of tags that show one face and hide the other as an attribute, or vice versa, of which the most used is probably the SIC/CORR pair. An erroneous word (say 'medievil') could be captured optionally as
<SIC CORR="mediaeval">medievil</SIC> or <CORR SIC="medievil">mediaeval</CORR>
The former preserves the attested form in the text and relegates the correction to the attribute; the latter does the opposite. The proposal is to do away with such things since preserving literal text in attributes makes it impossible to include features that need to be marked up.
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