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Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example
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Marius L. |
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Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example |
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Sun, 09 May 2004 17:43:54 +0200 |
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 13:41 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> > What about <address country="us">Boston, Massachusetts</address>?
>
> This forces the processors to include huge ISO tables, and doesn't
> allow for alternate versions of the name that the author of the item
> would prefer for some reason. I think a <country> tag is not too
> costly.
I don't think such a compromise is a good idea at all. After all, the
distinguishing feature of Bibulus is multi-lingualism, isn't it? This
means it will have to handle quite a lot of language-specific nastiness
such as this.
Size of tables is hardly an argument nowadays; maintainability, on the
other hand, might be (AFAIK there are some 250 countries in ISO 3166).
> Well, somewhere you must draw a line anyway. A style that wants to
> translate City names is very stange in my opinion.
Not at all; it's very common. Having "Florence, Italy" appear in a non-
English bibliography will be frowned upon by users who expect the
bibliography to be presented in the same language as the rest of the
text.
> After all, it's
> not about finding and visiting somebody, but about a tag for
> identification.
Not true. It's about formalism. Publishers and magazines sometimes have
quite strict guidelines about these things.
> There is one thing however that needs to be canonicalised, namely
> the journal name (if it's a paper).
So how is this case really any different? If canonicalisation can be
done here -- using the "official spelling", I would assume -- it surely
can be accomplished for names of *major* cities. Things will fall
through the cracks, but that is, as you've stated, unavoidable.
--
Marius L. Jøhndal
- [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Thomas Widmann, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Torsten Bronger, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Thomas Widmann, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Torsten Bronger, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Thomas Widmann, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Torsten Bronger, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example,
Marius L. <=
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Torsten Bronger, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Thomas Widmann, 2004/05/09
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Torsten Bronger, 2004/05/10
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Thomas Widmann, 2004/05/10
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Torsten Bronger, 2004/05/12
- Re: [Bibulus-dev] Bibulus DTD: An concrete example, Thomas Widmann, 2004/05/12