Re: [xbiblio-devel] CSL Specificaton question (et-al-min/et-al-use-first)

[Rintze Z. <rin...@gm...>]

Yes, please. It would be out of reach of RELAX NG, and probably
Schematron as well, so a Ruby test would be great.

Rintze

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Sylvester Keil <syl...@ke...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 00:35 -0400, Rintze Zelle wrote:
>> Also agree. Can't recall ever reading about a default, don't think
>> it's a good idea, and it's not the intent of the current spec to
>> allow
>> setting only one of the two et-al parameters of a set ("...-min" and
>> "...-use-first" for "et-al-..." and "et-al-subsequent-...").
>>
>> With the hierarchical name attributes, it's not entirely
>> straightforward to test for the presence of both with validation, but
>> otherwise we'd screen for it. Maybe we should require that both
>> attributes of a set should occur on the same element. That would also
>> make it easier to ascertain that the "...-min" attribute has a higher
>> value than the "...-use-first" attribute, which is commonly violated
>> in submissions.
>
> I don't think it's hard to write a test case for both cases (which
> handles inheritance) -- shall I give it a try?
>
> Sylvester
>
>
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>> Rintze