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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know we’ve had a few rounds of discussion about the content models of <eventList> and <event> in the past. I think there are basically 2 issues currently facing us:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>eventList contains a bug that doesn’t allow grouping events that share the same date<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>the model of event is too vague<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I propose to remedy the first problem by using the following content model for <eventList>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">eventList (head*, listHead?, (date, (event | eventGrp))*, biblList*)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By placing <date> outside the model of <event>, the main content of <eventList> can be constrained to be any number of pairs of <date> and <event> elements, like so –<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><eventList><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <date><!-- when “it” happened --></date><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <event><!-- what happened --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <date><!-- another happening --></date><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <event><!-- another description --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><!-- and so on --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></eventList><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or, when multiple events share the same date, like so --<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><eventList><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <date><!-- the date --></date><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <eventGrp> <!-- the events occurring on the date --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <event>Event 1</event><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <event> Event 2</event><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <!-- and so on --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </eventGrp><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></eventList><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The new model also introduces listHead, a new formatting element. <listHead> contains a pair of <head> elements, one for each column in the eventList date-event pair. This makes it possible to treat the list of events as though it were
a table with a column heading for the dates and a heading for the descriptions. Of course, eventList/head continues to contain a heading for the entire list --<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><eventList><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <head>My List o’ Special Events</head><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <listHead><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <head>When</head><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <head>What</head><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </listHead><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <event/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <event/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></eventList><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I plan to investigate how this might work for other lists as well, such as <biblList>, <castList>, and <list>. Any list that allows a label preceding its “items” could benefit from this treatment, I think.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One more change -- <eventList> is now a member of model.listLike, meaning it can occur not just in the header but anywhere a “regular” list can happen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <event> element now has the following model (switching to RNG as it’s somewhat clearer than DTD syntax) --<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><content><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:optional><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="model.labelLike"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </rng:optional><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:choice><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <!-- data-like organization --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:zeroOrMore><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:choice><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="model.eventPart"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="eventList"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </rng:choice><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </rng:zeroOrMore><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <!-- free-form organization --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:zeroOrMore><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:choice><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <!-- model.listLike is expanded here in order to disallow biblList --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="model.pLike"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="model.tableLike"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="castList"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="eventList"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="list"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </rng:choice><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </rng:zeroOrMore><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </rng:choice><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:zeroOrMore><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <rng:ref name="biblList"/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </rng:zeroOrMore><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></content><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">English translation is “an optional label, followed by EITHER some data-like elements or nested eventLists OR any number of paragraphs, tables, castLists, eventLists, or lists, followed by any number of lists of bibliographic citations.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The central choice (a data-centric organization OR a free-form text one) is the important factor here. In purely practical terms, any file that formerly used a group of data elements followed by a paragraph will have to be translated into
-- <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><event><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <label><!-- former paragraph content --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <geogName/><persName/> <!-- etc. --><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></event><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This element re-naming and re-ordering is not a difficult task and can be made part of the 2013 -> 2015 XSLT transformation. If the re-ordering poses a significant issue (that is, you *<b>must</b>* have the data elements followed by the
label), I think it’s not a problem to allow that, but please let me know.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As always, I apologize for the length of the message and the XML “gobbledy-gook”. I just don’t know of any other way to communicate. ;-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">p. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">________________________________<br>
Perry Roland<br>
University of Virginia<br>
</span>P. O. Box 400874<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Charlottesville, VA, 22904<span style="color:black"><br>
434-982-2702 (w)<br>
pdr4h (at) virginia (dot) edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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