[tei-council] constraints on <publicationStmt>

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 29 Sep 2014, at 22:57, Paul Schaffner <PFSchaffner at umich.edu> wrote:

> I think there is actually a rule for this (broken in this case), namely
> 
> 4B6.5 "If a place of publication ... associated with an earlier
> edition appears together with the actual place of publication ..
> of the edition being described, transcribe the places as a single
> element in the order in which they appear. [example:]
> "Philadelphia printed, London reprinted."
> 
> i.e.
> 
> <pubPlace>Printed at London ; and reprinted at Glasgow : </pubPlace>
> <publisher>by Robert Sanders...</publisher>


hmm. this is problematic. When converted to valid TEI P5, it would come out as

> <publisher>by Robert Sanders...</publisher>
> <pubPlace>Printed at London ; and reprinted at Glasgow : </pubPlace>
> 
which is a bit nonsensical.

This mixture of transcription and controlled order of elements
isn’t going to work. Bleeargh.
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