[uf-discuss] [hcite] nesting container elements

[Scott Reynen]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:

> I propose a 'container' class name that would be attached to a nested
> hCite instance to note when the nested hCite represents the containing
> item for the root hCite. The journal example above would then look
> something like this:
>
> <span class="hcite">
>    <span class="title">Different base/base mismatches are corrected  
> with
>        different efficiencies by the methyl-directed DNA mismatch- 
> repair
>        system of E. coli
>    </span>
> ...
>   <span class="hcite container">
>        <span class="title">Cell</span>
>    ...
>    </span>
> </span>
>
> Comments?

Maybe this has already been covered and I missed it, but why wouldn't  
we use HTML nesting to indicate citation nesting?  That is, rather  
than specify which node is a container with a class name, do it by  
actually having it contain the relevant nodes, e.g. (and I'm  
proposing this as actual markup, just how nesting could work):

<div class="hcite journal">
	<div class="hcite article">
    		<h3 class="title">Different base/base mismatches are corrected  
with different efficiencies by the methyl-directed DNA mismatch- 
repair system of E. coli</h3>
	</div>
	...
	<h2 class="title">Cell</h2>
</div>

That would require parsers to know all potential sub-types of each  
media type so an article title wouldn't get misinterpreted as a  
journal title, but that looks to me like a relatively small burden  
for parsers in exchange for simpler publishing.

Peace,
Scott