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Re: [xml-dev] What is the meaning of the first child element for anelement that is repeatable?
- From: Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:05:35 +0000
On 27/10/2020 14:24, Peter Flynn wrote:
On 27/10/2020 09:45, Tomos Hillman wrote:
[...]
Yes, there may be a risk. The risk is that a schema doesn't
incorporate business rules, nor does it document semantic meaning.
At best, it can only imply or hint, although that can sometimes be all
that is needed. In the publishing field there are many vocabularies with
element types such as
<title>
<main-title>
<subtitle>
<full-title>
<draft-title>
<called-title>
etc
Equally, there can just be <title> with attributes, and external
documentation (think TEI) that explains in the finest possible detail
EXACTLY how you construct the metadata from sources with multiple ways
of expressing their title, including no title at all.
And then there's the best laid plans of mice and men...
The TEI for 'Moby-Dick' [1] from the 'Wright American Fiction' project
encodes a chapter opening like this:
<div type="chapter">
<head>CHAPTER I.</head>
<head type="sub">LOOMINGS.</head>
<p>Call me Ishmael...
Yes, 'CHAPTER I.' comes before and is larger than 'LOOMINGS' in the
printed book [2], but if the TEI documentation explains in the finest
possible detail how to deal with chapter numbers, someone didn't read
it.
Regards,
Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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Skerries, Ireland
tgraham@antenna.co.jp
[1] http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright/VAC7237
[2] http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:1486170/LARGE
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