[osis-core] <work> element for the current document?

Steve DeRose osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:26:58 -0400


At 11:36 AM -0400 08/23/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>Steve et al.,
>
>This is the repetition I am most concerned about:
>
>>  <header>
>>    <title>Augustine's Confessions</title>
>>    <creator role="Author">St. Augustine</creator>
>>    <creator role="translator">Pusey</creator>
>>    <publisher>S.P.C.K.</publisher>
>>    <date>1912</date>
>>
>>    <works>
>>      <work osisWork="augustine.confessions.SPCK1912">     <!-- the
>curren document -->
>>        <title>Augustine's Confessions</title>
>>        <creator role="author">St. Augustine</creator>
>>        <creator role="translator">Pusey</creator>
>>        <publisher>S.P.C.K.</publisher>
>>        <date>1912</date>
>>      </work>
>
>Note that under the latest proposal you specify the <title> of
>the current document in the <header> and also in a <work> element.
>
>I don't think there should be a <work> element for the current
>document. Or, if there is, we should delete the <title> <creator>
>etc. elements from the <header>.

Makes sense; I had missed the free-standing ones. Definitely don't 
need duplicates.
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