the 'variable' attribute of <label>

CSL Development
1

Hi,

takes a single variable (“page” | “locator”), but name-label
"inherits variable from tag", which () takes a list of
variables.

What should I do? The python and ruby implementations seem not to
care, while, if I read it correctly, the zotero one processes all
variables and concatenates the result as if multiple labels were used.

Andrea

ps: I just committed some more code: now , ,
and are the only elements for which there’s no basic support
yet. The rest is there. After adding that support (which is trivial)
I’ll start writing the CSL parser.

2

The way you describe the Zotero implementation is not the way I would
expect this to work. Not multiple labels, but the label appropriate
for the name(s) displayed. I store a reference to the names tag in my
implementation which I (will) use to see what the label is supposed to
be shown.

Btw, you would expect something like this if both editors and
translators are asked for:

Author1, Author2, Eds., Author3, Trans.

At least that is how interpret how it should be.

Hth,

JohanOp 24 jun 2008, om 16:50 heeft Andrea Rossato het volgende geschreven:

takes a single variable (“page” | “locator”), but name-label
“inherits variable from tag”, which () takes a list of
variables.

What should I do? The python and ruby implementations seem not to
care, while, if I read it correctly, the zotero one processes all
variables and concatenates the result as if multiple labels were used.

3

This makes a lot of sense, indeed. And it did help. Thank you very
much.

Andrea

4

So you’re interpreting the content of the variable attribute as an
ordered list? That makes sense, but I don’t think the schema actuallly
says that. Perhaps we should fix that?

Bruce