P5 version 1.3 release notes

This release:

• adds two new elements (listEvent and locusGrp)
• includes extensive modifications to the French translation, undertaken by the GE8 group under J-L. Benoit
• includes a large number of Chinese examples provided by the Taiwan team under M. Bingenheimer
• contains a range of minor changes agreed by the TEI Council between November 2008 and January 2009, in response to suggestions and bug reports received at the TEI Sourceforge request tracker.

Changes made are listed briefly below in date order. Where further discussion of the change is available in the SF bug tracker, the ticket number is indicated in parentheses below:

• 2008-11-01: Permit milestone elements within the body of listBibl (2510548)
• 2008-11-01: Add Korean translations for most element specifications
• 2008-11-17: Change text of HD and MS to clarify recommendations about where lb etc. should be placed
• 2008-12-08: Simplify definition for Tei "Bare" exemplar
• 2008-12-09: Clarify descriptions for elements desc and sourceDesc (2055880)
• 2008-12-12: Add origPlace to add.datable class, for consistency with origDate (2100015)
• 2008-12-12: Permit titlePage as an explicit alternative within msContents (2242183)
• 2009-01-05: Add new French translated material
• 2009-01-10: Add new Chinese translated material
• 2009-01-12: Correct erroneous examples in specifications for supplied, population, listPerson
• 2009-01-12: Permit multiple instances of valDesc to support different language versions
• 2009-01-15: Add columns to list of suggested values for biblScope (2510582)
• 2009-01-16: Remove redundant @usage attributes from all element specs and from elementSpec (2411987); at the same time removed all currently redundant @xml:id values on element specs
• 2009-01-16: Resolve some unresolved pointers in examples introduced by Chinese translations
• 2009-01-19: Add new class att.sourced to supply @ed attribute (2216574)
• 2009-01-22: Simplify list of suggested values for @place attribute (2507349)
• 2009-01-23: Add new element listEvent (2056408)
• 2009-01-23: Add brief note deprecating use of @targetEnd (2494567)
• 2009-01-23: Add term to att.canonical class and revise discussion in CO (2201246)
• 2009-01-24: Link Chinese examples with Chinese source information
• 2009-01-24: Correct some erroneous bibliographic links for examples
• 2009-01-24: Permit empty valList and null @prefix on schemaSpec
• 2009-01-27: Correct typo (declarable for declaring) in CC
• 2009-01-27: Add ab lg and p to class att.declaring (2538659)
• 2009-01-30: Add new element locusGrp and revise discussion in MS extensively (2242024)