Now, do I agree that we will eventually find something that goes beyond what we've covered in the TEI spec? You better believe we will. But when that day comes, TEI can be expanded to cover the situation. Do I think this will be a common occurance? Not a chance.
This is just off the top of the stack of projects I would like to put through DP, but hold off on because they contain elements I consider presently unmanageable. http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shimmin/almanac.PNG Today, if I could figure out a good way to handle it, I would write some styling for it, submit it, and be done with it. Tomorrow, I will have to bug some element of the PG bureaucracy to patch my styling into their code, which it may not be compatible with, or may disagree with their notions of markup elegance. A tool that works 90% of the time is a wonderful thing. A rule that works 90% of the time is not. -- RS