citation structure

CSL Development
1

Am busy, but worked a little more on the XSLT (nothing on the schema
yet). Here’s what you wanted Johan?

   <cs:citation cs:delimiter=";" text:prefix="(" text:suffix=")">
      <cs:multiple-authors cs:position="first" cs:min-authors="6"

cs:use-first=“6”>et al.</cs:multiple-authors>
<cs:multiple-authors cs:position=“subsequent"
cs:min-authors=“6” cs:use-first=“1”>et al.</cs:multiple-authors>
<cs:layout cs:position=“first”>
cs:creator
cs:names-short/
</cs:creator>
cs:year/
<cs:point text:prefix=”: "/>
</cs:layout>
</cs:citation>

I still need to make sure this doesn’t cause other problems if I make
this change.

Any thoughts on how to handle customization of the shorten attribute
here?

Right now the “———.” is hard-coded, and that needs to change.

Bruce

2

Actually, in this approach, the layout would be different. The
position attribute should be “all” since layout is not affected by
position in this case.

   <cs:citation cs:delimiter=";" text:prefix="(" text:suffix=")">
      <cs:multiple-authors cs:position="first" cs:min-authors="6"

cs:use-first=“6”>et al.</cs:multiple-authors>
<cs:multiple-authors cs:position=“subsequent"
cs:min-authors=“6” cs:use-first=“1”>et al.</cs:multiple-authors>
<cs:layout cs:position=“all”>
cs:creator
cs:names-short/
</cs:creator>
cs:year/
<cs:point text:prefix=”: "/>
</cs:layout>
</cs:citation>

Bruce

3

One thing, though, that you should understand:

One of the reasons for using elements for this sort of content is that
it is easier to validate. If I go down this road of moving content to
attributes (first/subsequent, etc.), it probably means this will always
be a RELAX NG-only schema. XML Schema is dumb about attributes (and
about order, which is already a problem).

I’m fine with that myself, but is a trade-off.

Bruce