[sword-devel] what to do about citation tags in ThML?

[Brian J. Dumont]

David Troidl wrote:
> Brian J. Dumont wrote:
>> So I've been updating some genbooks modules per comments from the
>> beta tests.  I think I've come across an error in either the DTD or
>> the documentation for ThML.  The problem has to do with citation
>> tags.  The docs I've been using are directly from CCEL:
>>
>>     http://www.ccel.org/ThML/ThML1.04.htm
>>
>> where it says:
>>
>>     Citations of other works such as books or treatises may be marked
>>     with the <citation> element. That element may also take an href
>>     attribute to specify a URI for the cited work, if available.
>>
>> I'm using the DTD from them as well:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE ThML PUBLIC "-//CCEL/DTD Theological Markup Language//EN"
>> "http://www.ccel.org/dtd/ThML10.dtd">
>>
>> If I add a <citation> element, then xmllint claims that it fails
>> against the DTD:
>>
>>     [bjdasc at ascpc5] xmllint --valid tst.xml > law_gospel.xml.clean
>>     tst.xml:15312: element citation: validity error : No declaration
>>     for element citation
>>         In the <citation>Preface to the Book of Concord</citation>
>>     (Mueller, p. 16. 17;
>>                                                                   ^
>>     tst.xml:15344: element p: validity error : Element citation is not
>>     declared in p list of possible children
>>     perhaps, while the blind are leaders of the blind, all might
>>     perish.&rdquo;</p>
>>
>> If I remove the tag, then it works fine.  Should I just remove the
>> markup or should we try to fix this (it's not really in our files)? 
>> Do we know who to contact at CCEL for this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
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> If you look in the DTD, you'll find <!ENTITY % ThML.bible SYSTEM
> "bible.mod">
> and it looks like bible.mod contains the citation element.
>
> The whole DTD package is available at
> http://www.ccel.org/ThML/
>
> Look under
>
>
>      For the SGML/XML types:
>
> (ThML10.zip <http://www.ccel.org/ThML/dtd/ThML10.zip>)
>
> Peace,
>
> David
>
>
Thanks for the response, David.

That might be the problem!  It's in bible.mod ... I am not using this in
a Bible, but rather in a genbook.  From bible.mod, it would never be in
the subcontext of <p> ... </p> tags.

Does this mean no citations in genbooks?  Seems a bit odd...

In Christ,
Brian