apa.csl and citation delimiter

CSL Development
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What is the delimeter for citations in the apa.csl? It used to be ";"
but now I don’t see where it’s stored.

Johan–
http://www.johankool.nl/

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Oops; just added it back:

I did have a question about this:

Are we fine with these attribute being on citation?

The alternative would probably be something like:

I’ve not looked at this issue recently, but I recall Simon wanting to
make explicit that a “.” goes at the end of a bibliography entry. So
there that goes on the “item” element.

Bruce

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Thanks for the fix. It this not a required attribute for citation?

I like the current style better as the place to store the delimiter.

Johan

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Thanks for the fix. It this not a required attribute for citation?

It wasn’t, but it is now :wink:

I like the current style better as the place to store the delimiter.

Yeah, me too.

A related question: what do we do about citation sorting?

Right now, it’s not configurable, and I assume by default then
author-date sorting, like:

(Doe, 1999, 2000; Smith, 1998)

So this gets us back to the sorting issue in general:

Do we keep the now fully configurable sorting, or do we restrict the
options to attribute values?

What to do about citations? Leave it as is? Have a sort element here
too that must be there for sorting to happen? Allow full
configurability?

Would look like:

My feeling now is we should NOT allow full sorting configurability, but
that the empty element (with only the attribute) must be there for
sorting to be turned on.

Note also that I removed the “custom” citation class from the options
for now, because I’m not really sure it’s necessary, and that we want
to insist that implementations support it.

My thinking is it’s better to keep things tighter now, and only open it
up later if people really need it.

Is that OK?

Bruce

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Is that OK?

Yup, no objections here.

Johan