Subject: Re: [jats-list] citation "year" with suffix From: Kaveh Bazargan <kaveh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:54:17 +0530 |
Hi Nikos I bow to the volume of data that you have in your organization, and my exposure to the variety of xml does not compare to yours. ;-) I agree that for subjects with a lot of legacy citations which cannot easily be structured, mixed citation might be better, but for STM research where most refs are structured, I think that it would encourage more structure. I would like us to try hard to make something structured and only use <comment> if there is no other option. Also I personally think that punctuation does not belong in data (unless there is no way of structuring). I believe that the Atypon DTD uses the x tag which makes it easy at least to remove the punctuation, but for me, putting the punctuation in verbatim in the data goes against the spirit of structure. My preference is that at least for normal journal and book citation which has structure, the data should be pure, and devoid of textual embellishments like en-dashes and semi-colons. These can be put in by any intelligent renderer on the fly, and even produce the most beautiful typesetting. But know there is plenty of "unintelligent" rendering engines out there that rely on a helping hand from typographic niceties peppered in the XML. If this is any part of the reason for leaving punctuation, then it worries me greatly. And just an example of how ridiculous mixed citation can get, here is an example from a recently published paper: <mixed-citation> US CDC 1990. International notes earthquake disaster: Luzon, Philippines. Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report 39(34): 573-577. </mixed-citation> This has arguably _less_ structure than a printed reference. The latter at least has bold and italic which hint at what each item might represent. ;-)
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