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

[Kaveh Bazargan <kaveh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At the risk of moving further off topic, can I suggest that the data
needs to be kept as structured as possible, and with minimum regard to
the display (or audio rendering, say).

So in a very generic terminology, a citation to a reference should be:

<reference>ref1, ref2, ref3, ref19, ref22, ref23, ref24</reference>

with no regard for what the rendered output should look like. So three
different "renderers" might show this in the final text as:

[1b3, 19, 22b24]
[1, 2, 3, 19, 22, 23, 24]
(Smith & Jones, 2002, ...)

Is this not the idea of fully reusable structured data? Why does a
"dash" have to be put into the XML?

Sorry if I am missing somethings really obvious. ;-)

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