Re: [jats-list] Element for wrapping a group of xref elements

[Alexander Schwarzman <aschwarzman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think one has to consider whether the articles are going to be
submitted to PubMedCentral.

PMC Guidelines http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/pmcdoc/tagging-guidelines/article/tags.html#el-xref
admonish:

Do not tag multiple id values in @rid.

--Sasha

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Bruce Rosenblum <bruce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alf,
>
> You can tag in all versions of NLM or in JATS as:
>
>         "induce co-stimulatory molecule elevation<xref rid="r14 r15 r18">14,
> 15, 18</xref>"
>
> This works fine for references, and you can also do the same with tables or
> figures, as in:
>
>         <xref rid="t1 t2 t3 t4">Tables 1-4</xref>
>
> but beware that this may create a usability problem for the reader because
> there's no "point" on which you can click to go to table 2 or table 3. This
> is less of a problem with references since they are all in the same
> proximity.
>
> In both cases, the key behind this is that the DTD declares rid to be
> IDREFS, not simply IDREF.
>
> Bruce
>
> At 08:26 AM 12/5/2012, Alf Eaton wrote:
>>
>> Is there an element in the JATS DTD that is suitable for denoting a
>> collection of xref elements in the body of an article?
>>
>> For example, in various citation styles:
>>
>> "induce co-stimulatory molecule
>>
>> elevation<xref-group><xref>14</xref>,<xref>15</xref>,<xref>18</xref></xref-group>."
>>
>> "induce co-stimulatory molecules elevation
>> <xref-group>(<xref>Gagliardi 2000</xref>; <xref>Berin
>> 2008</xref>)</xref-group>."
>>
>> "induce co-stimulatory molecule
>> elevation<xref-group>[<xref>14</xref>-<xref>16</xref>]</xref-group>."
>>
>> If the citations were marked up in this way, then it would be possible
>> for the renderer to choose which style
>> (numeric/superscript/parenthetical) to use when rendering them.
>>
>> For example, <xref-group><xref rid="ref-14">14</xref><xref
>> rid="ref-15">15</xref><xref rid="ref-16">16</xref></xref-group> could
>> be turned into a comma-separated list of numbers, a hyphenated pair of
>> numbers, or a semi-colon-separated list of author/year pairs, with the
>> appropriate punctuation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alf
>
>
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