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

[Kaveh Bazargan <kaveh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 January 2013 17:09, Alf Eaton <eaton.alf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 24 January 2013 16:26, Kaveh Bazargan <kaveh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> That's essentially the same as <xref rid="ref1 ref2 ref3 ref19 ref22
> ref23 ref24"/> - which would be ideal, but the problem is that most of
> the time we're marking up cross-references in text that already
> contains punctuation, e.g.
> (<xref rid="ref1">Smith, 1999</xref>; <xref rid="ref2">Jones, 2003</xref>)
>
> To be able to reformat those references using numeric reference labels
> instead of author-year, there has to be some way of knowing where the
> punctuation starts and ends, so either:
>
> <xref rid="ref1 ref2">(Smith, 1999; Jones, 2003)</xref>
> <=>
> <xref rid="ref1 ref2">1,2</xref>
>
> or
>
> <xref-group>(<xref rid="ref1">Smith, 1999</xref>; <xref
> rid="ref2">Jones, 2003</xref>)</xref-group>
> <=>
> <xref-group><xref rid="ref1">1</xref>,<xref
rid="ref2">2</xref></xref-group>
>
> I'm not sure which I prefer, but if it's a requirement that each
> individual reference is marked up, then I think there's definitely a
> use for an xref-group
> element to mark the start and end of the group of references.


Not sure I quite understand, but my argument is that we don't really
need "labels" at all. If references are correctly structured,
identifying the author, year, etc, then we choose at "run-time"
whether to have numeric or author-year labels in the text. We can of
course put a default label in, but in principle one output would
automatically give:

(Smith, 1999; Jones, 2003)

and another:

[18, 25]

and of course any "contraction" can be automatically generated too, e.g.

[18, 22b25, 27, 33b37]

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