[tei-council] one <exemplum> or many?

[Martin Holmes]

Here's a quick-and-dirty list of situations that look like they're 
instances of this. Obviously I haven't checked them all; it may be a 
legitimate exemplum which has a sequence of sibling elements with the 
same name.

att.ascribed.xml: castItem appears 2 times.
att.datable.custom.xml: p appears 4 times.
att.datable.w3c.xml: date appears 2 times.
att.datable.xml: date appears 2 times.
att.milestoneUnit.xml: milestone appears 2 times.
att.milestoneUnit.xml: milestone appears 2 times.
att.milestoneUnit.xml: milestone appears 2 times.
att.placement.xml: add appears 2 times.
att.sourced.xml: l appears 3 times.
sponsor.xml: sponsor appears 3 times.
sponsor.xml: sponsor appears 3 times.
funder.xml: funder appears 4 times.
funder.xml: funder appears 2 times.
funder.xml: funder appears 4 times.
edition.xml: edition appears 2 times.
edition.xml: edition appears 2 times.
extent.xml: extent appears 3 times.
extent.xml: extent appears 3 times.
extent.xml: extent appears 3 times.
distributor.xml: distributor appears 2 times.
distributor.xml: distributor appears 2 times.
distributor.xml: distributor appears 2 times.
idno.xml: idno appears 7 times.
idno.xml: idno appears 3 times.
availability.xml: availability appears 3 times.
availability.xml: availability appears 3 times.
refState.xml: refState appears 2 times.
refState.xml: refState appears 2 times.
handNote.xml: handNote appears 2 times.
change.xml: change appears 2 times.
p.xml: p appears 4 times.
p.xml: p appears 5 times.
emph.xml: q appears 2 times.
emph.xml: q appears 2 times.
hi.xml: hi appears 2 times.
hi.xml: hi appears 2 times.
distinct.xml: distinct appears 2 times.
distinct.xml: distinct appears 2 times.
said.xml: p appears 2 times.
said.xml: p appears 2 times.
q.xml: q appears 4 times.
q.xml: q appears 4 times.
mentioned.xml: mentioned appears 2 times.
mentioned.xml: mentioned appears 2 times.
term.xml: p appears 2 times.
term.xml: index appears 2 times.
orig.xml: l appears 2 times.
orig.xml: l appears 2 times.
orig.xml: l appears 2 times.
orig.xml: l appears 2 times.
orig.xml: l appears 2 times.
name.xml: name appears 4 times.
rs.xml: q appears 2 times.
rs.xml: q appears 2 times.
num.xml: p appears 2 times.
measure.xml: measure appears 3 times.
measure.xml: measure appears 3 times.
measure.xml: measure appears 3 times.
measure.xml: measure appears 3 times.
measure.xml: measure appears 3 times.
measure.xml: measure appears 3 times.
measureGrp.xml: measureGrp appears 3 times.
measureGrp.xml: measureGrp appears 3 times.
measureGrp.xml: measureGrp appears 3 times.
date.xml: date appears 2 times.
time.xml: time appears 2 times.
ptr.xml: ptr appears 3 times.
ptr.xml: ptr appears 3 times.
ref.xml: ref appears 2 times.
ref.xml: ref appears 2 times.
label.xml: p appears 2 times.
index.xml: index appears 2 times.
index.xml: index appears 3 times.
index.xml: index appears 2 times.
milestone.xml: milestone appears 2 times.
milestone.xml: milestone appears 2 times.
milestone.xml: milestone appears 2 times.
lb.xml: l appears 3 times.
author.xml: author appears 6 times.
author.xml: author appears 4 times.
author.xml: author appears 2 times.
editor.xml: editor appears 2 times.
editor.xml: editor appears 2 times.
editor.xml: editor appears 2 times.
biblScope.xml: biblScope appears 4 times.
biblScope.xml: biblScope appears 4 times.
biblScope.xml: biblScope appears 4 times.
lg.xml: lg appears 3 times.
lg.xml: lg appears 2 times.
sp.xml: sp appears 3 times.
sp.xml: sp appears 2 times.
sp.xml: sp appears 3 times.
speaker.xml: sp appears 5 times.
stage.xml: stage appears 10 times.
stage.xml: stage appears 11 times.
stage.xml: stage appears 10 times.
div1.xml: div1 appears 2 times.
div1.xml: div1 appears 2 times.
div1.xml: div1 appears 2 times.
charProp.xml: charProp appears 2 times.
charProp.xml: charProp appears 2 times.
localName.xml: localName appears 2 times.
localName.xml: localName appears 2 times.
mapping.xml: mapping appears 2 times.
mapping.xml: mapping appears 2 times.
unicodeName.xml: unicodeName appears 2 times.
unicodeName.xml: unicodeName appears 2 times.
metSym.xml: metSym appears 3 times.
metSym.xml: metSym appears 3 times.
metSym.xml: metSym appears 2 times.
caesura.xml: l appears 3 times.
caesura.xml: l appears 2 times.
caesura.xml: l appears 4 times.
castList.xml: div appears 2 times.
castGroup.xml: castGroup appears 2 times.
spGrp.xml: sp appears 2 times.
view.xml: view appears 2 times.
view.xml: view appears 2 times.
view.xml: div appears 2 times.
view.xml: div appears 2 times.
sound.xml: sp appears 4 times.
sound.xml: sp appears 4 times.
u.xml: u appears 2 times.
u.xml: u appears 2 times.
u.xml: u appears 2 times.
vocal.xml: vocal appears 2 times.
vocal.xml: vocal appears 2 times.
vocal.xml: vocal appears 2 times.
writing.xml: l appears 4 times.
shift.xml: u appears 3 times.
shift.xml: u appears 3 times.
shift.xml: u appears 3 times.
dimensions.xml: dimensions appears 3 times.
dimensions.xml: dimensions appears 2 times.
dimensions.xml: dimensions appears 3 times.
explicit.xml: explicit appears 3 times.
explicit.xml: explicit appears 3 times.
finalRubric.xml: finalRubric appears 2 times.
finalRubric.xml: finalRubric appears 2 times.
incipit.xml: incipit appears 6 times.
incipit.xml: incipit appears 6 times.
rubric.xml: rubric appears 3 times.
rubric.xml: rubric appears 3 times.
rubric.xml: rubric appears 3 times.
condition.xml: condition appears 2 times.
provenance.xml: provenance appears 2 times.
provenance.xml: provenance appears 2 times.
provenance.xml: provenance appears 2 times.
damage.xml: l appears 2 times.
damageSpan.xml: p appears 3 times.
damageSpan.xml: p appears 3 times.
damageSpan.xml: p appears 3 times.
delSpan.xml: p appears 4 times.
delSpan.xml: p appears 4 times.
delSpan.xml: p appears 4 times.
handShift.xml: l appears 2 times.
redo.xml: line appears 2 times.
bloc.xml: bloc appears 2 times.
bloc.xml: bloc appears 2 times.
bloc.xml: bloc appears 2 times.
affiliation.xml: affiliation appears 2 times.
affiliation.xml: affiliation appears 2 times.
affiliation.xml: affiliation appears 2 times.
education.xml: education appears 2 times.
education.xml: education appears 2 times.
education.xml: education appears 2 times.
geo.xml: geoDecl appears 2 times.
langKnown.xml: langKnown appears 2 times.
langKnown.xml: langKnown appears 2 times.
langKnown.xml: langKnown appears 2 times.
residence.xml: residence appears 2 times.
residence.xml: residence appears 2 times.
residence.xml: residence appears 2 times.
att.datable.iso.xml: date appears 3 times.
att.datable.iso.xml: date appears 3 times.
domain.xml: domain appears 2 times.
domain.xml: domain appears 2 times.
domain.xml: domain appears 2 times.
purpose.xml: purpose appears 2 times.
purpose.xml: purpose appears 2 times.
link.xml: s appears 2 times.
anchor.xml: s appears 2 times.
anchor.xml: s appears 2 times.
anchor.xml: s appears 2 times.
seg.xml: seg appears 2 times.
seg.xml: seg appears 2 times.
seg.xml: seg appears 2 times.
join.xml: sp appears 3 times.
join.xml: sp appears 3 times.
join.xml: p appears 2 times.
join.xml: sp appears 3 times.
join.xml: p appears 2 times.
join.xml: p appears 2 times.
s.xml: s appears 2 times.
s.xml: s appears 2 times.
span.xml: p appears 3 times.
span.xml: p appears 3 times.
span.xml: p appears 3 times.
spanGrp.xml: u appears 6 times.
binary.xml: f appears 2 times.
binary.xml: f appears 2 times.
respons.xml: respons appears 2 times.
respons.xml: respons appears 2 times.
respons.xml: respons appears 2 times.
tag.xml: tag appears 3 times.
tag.xml: tag appears 3 times.
tag.xml: tag appears 2 times.
memberOf.xml: memberOf appears 2 times.
memberOf.xml: memberOf appears 2 times.
memberOf.xml: memberOf appears 2 times.
equiv.xml: elementSpec appears 2 times.
equiv.xml: elementSpec appears 2 times.
equiv.xml: elementSpec appears 2 times.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-12-06 06:04 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> It strikes me as wrong semantically (an "exemplum" is a single example)
> and also potentially confusing to a user (for an element that can
> repeat, not being sure whether the multiple examples rendered in the
> same green box online could appear together in the same place in a
> document).  I see the convenience, but I think it's something we should
> avoid.
>
> On 12/6/2012 8:50 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> I count 213 instances of<egXML>  with multiple identical child elements,
>> such as the instance you see in biblScope.xml, but I'm not so sure
>> there's anything wrong with including multiple instances of a tag inside
>> one<exemplum>/<egXML>  block, especially when the examples are very
>> short. Is it wrong, or just convenient and efficient?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 12-12-05 08:20 PM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>> I notice that biblScope.xml has one<exemplum>  containing four examples
>>> of<biblScope>.  This should actually be four separate<exemplum>s,
>>> right?  That is, you should only ever have a chunk of code meant to be
>>> read together in a single<exemplum>, right?
>>>
>>> If so, perhaps someone could hack together an XSLT that looks for
>>> multiple occurrences of the same element within a single<exemplum>  in
>>> order to detect others in Specs/ that need to be separated?
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
>>

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)