#549 More flexible dateline for periodical edition tracking

[M. H. Beals]

In order to facilitate edition tracking (and tracking reprints and information spread) it would be very useful to allow the dateline tag to be used directly within within body/p. It would also be useful to be able to include not only date, but also source--that is, the previous named or alluded to publication in which the piece appeared.

For example:

We have recently received the following from <dateline date="1820-03-03" source="New York Advertiser">the Advertiser, dated the 3rd instant</dateline>, in which a very interesting account of....

[Lou Burnard]

<dateline> is meant to contain a dateline attached to the story following it, not a reference to some other story, which is your case here. I suggest you could use something like <ref type="source">

[M. H. Beals]

Unfortunately, ref does not allow the specificity of when, settlement, etc that the dateline of a periodical article is meant to convey. If the term dateline can only be narrowly interpreted in the context of a piece of correspondence, another term should be developed for this use as it is an extremely common, indeed integral part of pre-20th century newspaper texts and the mapping of this is very important to understanding the spread of texts

[Lou Burnard]

Fair enough, but <dateline> doesn't have enough structure or attributes to do that either, even if it was semantically correct to use it in this way. Have you considered using <bibl>?

We have recently received the following from <bibl><title key="New York Advertiser">the Advertiser</title>, dated <date when="1820-03-03">the 3rd instant</date></bibl>, in which a very interesting account of....

You could use @corresp (on <bibl>) to point to a URI or similar for the source document, if you have one.

[Lou Burnard]

Council reviewed 28 may 15 and agreed to close ticket.