[osis-core] <milestone> in <title>?

Troy A. Griffitts osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:49:23 -0700


I thought <seg> was our *any* element.

Harry Plantinga wrote:
> The <milestone> element is supposed to serve as a generic
> "here" marker for identifying locations for unanticipated 
> purposes. However, it can't appear in a <title> element.
> 
> I can think of a number of reasons you might want to put a 
> <milestone> in a <title>.  The one that's causing me headaches
> right now is that I want to use <milestone type="br"> to 
> identify line breaks. E.g.
> 
> <title>MEISTER<br/>ECKHART'S<br/>SERMONS</title>
> 
> I want to write
> 
> <title>MEISTER<milestone type="br"/>ECKHART'S...etc.
> 
> Can we add <milestone> to the <title> content model?
> Or do you have another suggestion for handling line
> breaks?
> 
> I suppose I could use <p> instead of <title>, i.e.
> 
> <p type="title">MEISTER<milestone type="br"/>...
> 
> Perhaps that is what I will have to do unless the schema
> is changed.
> 
> -Harry