Re: [xbiblio-devel] editors in APA

[Sebastian K. <karcher@u.northwestern.edu>]

> Regarding the `editors`, no other magic happening then. The name of the macro `container-contributors` seem to imply there is a different variable to access the "container editors", which could be the book editors in the case of a chapter, but I don't think there is any magic expected, right?
>
correct.

> I am just asking because in the case of Papers, the chapter and the book are 2 different items, but in this case, I likely need to make sure my CSL translation layer returns the editors of the book, if none abvailable for the chapter. I wanted to make sure I was not missing anything.
>
that's exactly right, yes.




>
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Frank Bennett wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Charles Parnot
>> <cha...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am scratching my head on a specific detail of the APA style and how it is supposed to work with the CSL specifications.
>>>
>>> The `<layout>` for the `<bibliography>` includes those 2 elements (among others):
>>>
>>>          <text macro="author"/>
>>>          <text macro="container-contributors"/>
>>>
>>> First of all, since the `author` macro has a `<substitute>` element that falls back to editor, and since the `container-contributors` calls for the `editor` variable, there is a potential for a duplicated output of the editors.
>>>
>>> Now, I also see that the `container-contributors` macro only really output the editors for chapters and paper-conference. Given the name of the macro, I suppose it's expected to output the editors of the 'container' item, which would be the book or the conference.
>>>
>>> Could one of you clarify how it's supposed to be handled, per the specs, or per some other type-specific implementation of the `editor` variable for chapters?
>>
>> Variables rendered via cs:substitute are suppressed through the rest
>> of the cite.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Sebastian Karcher
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Department of Political Science
Northwestern University