Notable changes since the last packaged release (0.3.1, January 2006) are listed briefly
below (please refer to the ChangeLog in directory ReleaseNotes in the Sourceforge
archive for a full list).
- Revision of the TEI class system continues, with the definition of several new classes
following on from a systematic review of all content models by the Council (see http://www.tei-c.org/Council/tcw07.xml).
- Detailed proposals for the encoding of personal data (for example in biographies),
developed from those formerly in the Corpus module enhanced by work carried out by
the "Personography" activity, have been developed to form a new section of the chapter
on names and dates.
- A new P5 conformant version of the TEI Lite schema was developed, correcting some
errors in the existing specification and converting it to ODD format. This revised
Lite specification now forms part of the Exemplars suite in the package; the chapter
on Modifying the Guidelines has not yet been updated to refer to this new version
however.
- A substantial effort was put into reorganization into a new directory structure for
the source (ODD) files from which the Guidelines and schemas are generated. A framework
for the production of element specifications and documentation in languages other
than English is now in place and has been tested with a new French translation of
the TEI Header chapter, and with translations of element specifications into variety
of languages.
- Several stylesheet bugs were fixed and a new CSS style is now used to present an XHTML
version of the Guidelines.
- a new attribute method is provided for the classSpec element, which enables the user to determine how the class should be applied when
it is used inside a content model
- elements dateStruct and timeStruct were removed, and attributes notBefore and notAfter added to date and time.
- Removed specifications for mix and gen entities, and some elements no longer used
etc.
- a long-standing error in the usage rules for the attributes of the relation element was corrected
- attributes were added to schemaSpec to control production of multilingual versions
- Several content models (including those of argument, div, and divN) were fixed, mostly to permit global elements more globally.