Re: [jats-list] Page range coding for books

["Nikos Markantonatos nikos@xxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan.

Your question reveals an interesting shortcoming of the DTD. If 
<page-count> element allowed for a PCDATA body, then what you ask for 
could be encoded as:

<counts>
<page-count count="106">vi+100</page-count>
</counts>

But this is not possible with the current BITS DTD, so all you can do 
for now is:

<counts>
<page-count count="106"/>
</counts>

therefore missing out on the analysis of the book page counts. You may 
want to raise this one with the BITS maintenance committee.

Regards,
Nikos Markantonatos
Atypon


On 12/16/2014 04:20 PM, Jan Driesen jan.driesen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We want to code book-metadata / books (in BITS) that are numbered partially in roman numerals (TOC, introduction, ...) and after that arab numerals, which restart from 1.
> When describing the extent of the book in the books' metadata, such is normally done as: vi+100
> This means the book has vi (6) pages numbered in roman numerals (pages i to vi) and 100 pages numbered in arab numerals (pages 1 to 100). In total the book has 106 pages (so 106 could be the /book/book-meta/counts/page-count).
> An example (non affiliated): https://books.google.be/books?id=uVoOZyqE5o4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false showing vii+337 pages
>
> What would be the appropriate way to tag such data?
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Jan Driesen


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