The problem I see is with the blockquote model:
## A quotation set off from the main text
element blockquote {
db.blockquote.attlist,
db.blockquote.info,
db.attribution?,
db.all.blocks+
}
}
As you can see it's able to include db.all.blocks. Should we consider that line is a block-level element? If so:
db.all.blocks =
(db.nopara.blocks | db.para.blocks | db.extension.blocks)
db.publishers.blocks = db.dialogue | db.poetry | db.drama
db.extension.blocks = db.publishers.blocks
Do we modify db.publishers.blocks = db.dialogue | db.poetry | db.drama | db.linegroup | db.line
That might have more downstream consequences than we want.
We could just modify
db.blockquote =
## A quotation set off from the main text
element blockquote {
db.blockquote.attlist,
db.blockquote.info,
db.attribution?,
(db.all.blocks | db.linegroup | db.line)+
}
}
at which point we might as well make blockquote the same model as linegroup?
db.linegroup =
## A grouping of lines in dialogue or other form of communication.
element linegroup {
db.linegroup.attlist, db.speaker*, (db.stagedir | db.line | db.all.blocks)+
}
}
db.blockquote =
## A quotation set off from the main text
element blockquote {
db.blockquote.attlist,
db.blockquote.info,
db.attribution?,
(db.stagedir | db.line | db.all.blocks)+
}
}
if this is the case, why wouldn't you just use linegroup and forget blockquote altogether?
Thanks and best regards,
--Scott
Scott Hudson | PELCO by Schneider Electric | United States | Standards Lead
Phone: +1 970 282 1952 | Fax: +1 970 282 1950 | Email: | Site: pdn.pelco.com
On Apr 2, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Richard Hamilton <> wrote:
I exchanged messages with pcthoms regarding this RFE:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3602904&group_id=21935&atid=1037852)
He/she is asking that the following be legal:
<drama>
<linegroup><speaker></speaker>
<line>Text.</line>
<blockquote>
<line>Song.</line>
</blockquote>
<line>Text.</line>
</linegroup>
</drama>
Right now, you cannot have <line> inside of a <blockquote> element. That's the addition the RFE is asking for.
At first, I thought he/she was just looking for a way to (ab)use the <blockquote> element to get an indent. But, while that is one result of doing this, the actual purpose is to markup a fragment of a song or a poem in the lines from a particular speaker, which sounds like a reasonable thing to do (though I don't know if <blockquote> is the best element to use for this purpose).
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether we should consider this change (allowing <line> inside <blockquote>, at least when <blockquote> is inside <linegroup>) or is there some other, hopefully better, way to achieve the same purpose?
Thanks,
Dick
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