Changes since the last packaged release (0.5, October 2006) are listed briefly below (please refer to the file ChangeLog in directory ReleaseNotes at the Sourceforge archive for a full list).
This (somewhat delayed) release contains a large number of minor changes, many of them consequent on a purge of outstanding Sourceforge feature requests.
- I18N work has continued: Japanese and Chinese translations for many element descriptions were merged in, and the file organization was modified.
- A number of utilities were introduced to streamline the editorial process, including a tool for producing a linked catalogue of all TEI objects (elements, classes, etc.)
- A major headache in the way that the content models for high level objects (all kinds of <div>, <body> etc.) are defined was addressed. This made it possible for a schema to select either numbered or vanilla div elements without causing ambiguity.
- The low-level component elements of <date> and <time> (<day>, <hour> etc.) were removed.
- The <dateRange> and <timeRange> elements were removed; the <date> and <time> elements were added to att.datable in order to accomodate encoding of temporal ranges.
- The P5 source was reorganized and restructured very slightly, and also revised to use vanilla <div>s (as opposed to numbered <div>s).
- Many long-standing feature requests were dealt with.Examples include:
- <roleDesc> within <castGroup>
- adding new <email> and <stamp> elements
- making <note> globally available
- making the label attributes of elements for encoding trees and graphs (<tree>, <eTree>, etc.) into child elements
- making <quote> available rather than <q> within <msItem>
- creating a new class att.msExcerpt for the defective attribute.
- changing ink of <hand> and <handShift> and medium of <handNote> to data.enumerated.
- The tools and stylesheets used to produce HTML version of the Guidelines were enhanced.
- The content modelm for <front> was modified to permit titlepages and divisions in any order
- A number of datatype changes were implemented, consequent on a decision to change the way that multiple attribute values are specified in ODD
- The class model.divPart.spoken was redefined as a child of model.inter in order to fix a long-standing bug
- Some minor typographic errors have been corrected.
In addition, a project plan to enable a first release of P5 1.0 at the Members Meeting 2007 was developed, and a tracking system for use of the Council and Editors was set up.