[MEI-L] <div> in header

Mon Oct 26 12:48:01 CET 2015

Hi Andrew

I can do a workaround by wrapping the contents in a <div> before passing it to the text editor and stripping it off again with XSLT on saving. Nevertheless, I am not sure I agree that header contents is never intended to be rendered. After all, the header may contain such information as transcriptions of a source's title page.
We are rendering loads of header information in our catalogues. I agree that exact placement of text blocks doesn't seem to be a likely thing to do in the header, not even within the title page transcriptions (I have no idea what kind of coordinates would make any sense unless we implement a detailed page layout specification; but that's definitely not a road I want MEI to go down). MEI does, however, already allow quite some text formatting within <p> such as font style, size, and color, so header content may already contain some rendering information.
But more important, I do not see why <div> should be used for positioning and other rendering purposes only. On the contrary – the MEI guidelines say:
<div> (division) – Major structural division of text, such as a preface, chapter or section.
This is exactly the structuring mechanism I would like to see in the header as well: structure on a larger scale than <p>.

Best,
Axel

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Fra: mei-l [mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] på vegne af Andrew Hankinson [andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca]
Sendt: 25. oktober 2015 23:00
Til: Music Encoding Initiative
Emne: Re: [MEI-L] <div> in header

Personally, I think of <div> being used to position rendered text like in HTML. So having it in the header would be problematic, since that information is never intended to be "rendered" directly.

This is somewhat related to a recent discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding/issues/272

-Andrew

On Oct 25, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Axel Teich Geertinger <atge at kb.dk<mailto:atge at kb.dk>> wrote:

Hi

Is there any particular reason why <div> elements are not allowed anywhere in the header?
I am asking this because I want to use a Rich Text Editor (tinyMCE) for blocks of text in the header, for instance in <annot> or <history> within <work>. This type of editor requires that the editable content is wrapped in a single element (like <p> or <div>). It is not good at handling mixed content. Of course i could use <p> as the wrapper, but then I would have to have one editor instance for every paragraph, if I want more than one paragraph of text.

I actually think that allowing <div> in <history> could also make the structure a little clearer. As it is, <history> may contain <head>, <creation>, <eventList> and any number of <p>s. Perhaps it would be nice to be able to wrap all non-structured text in a single <div> to separate it from the more structured elements <creation> and <eventList>?

Best,
Axel

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