I have no problem with nesting of choices, or anything else indeed,
however it does worryn me somewhat that in this example there's no
obvious way of telling that if I choose the "dni" branch for the <abbr>,
then I have to choose the "domini" branch for its expansion. In other
words, there's a dependency which the nesting does not adequately capture.
James Cummings wrote:
> so this isn't a sketch either. ;-)
>
> I just have an innocent question (which if it is as silly
> as most of mine I'll try to pass off later as conversation-
> generating socratic irony) based on the discussion so far.
>
> A choice mechanism is very much like app/rdg (as I think
> Dan already mentioned)? My simple question is whether
> it can be infinitely nested in the same way as app/rdg?
>
> i.e. something like:
>
> <choice>
> <abbr>
> <choice>
> <abbr resp="JC">dni</abbr>
> <abbr resp="DC">dm</abbr>
> </choice>
> </abbr>
> <expan>
> <choice>
> <expan resp="JC">domini</expan>
> <expan resp="DC">dominum</expan>
> </choice>
> </expan>
> </choice>
>
> Which is intended not to show a critical apparatus but
> where two encoders disagree about the original abbreviation
> and hence its expansion. I know that this could just be
> shown as:
>
> <choice>
> <abbr resp="JC">dni</abbr>
> <abbr resp="DC">dm</abbr>
> <expan resp="JC">domini</expan>
> <expan resp="DC">dominum</expan>
> </choice>
>
> But, off the top of my head I couldn't picture a
> situation where I'd want to have nested choice
> elements. (Or at least not at this time of night.)
>
> Just one of those questions that has been nagging
> at me.
>
> -James
> ---
> Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
> James dot Cummings at ota dot ahds dot ac dot uk
>
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