Re: Inline address components

If you want to avoid extending DocBook with, for example, RDFa, you 
could use @role, as you suggested, or maybe @remap.
Some people might object to this slight misappropriation of @remap, 
which is described as "Provides the name or similar semantic identifier 
assigned to the content in some /previous/ markup scheme.".
We are talking about semantic identifiers in the /same/ markup scheme, 
and these identifiers (city, country, …) are not allowed at the location 
where you’d use @remap.
<phrase remap="city">Edinburgh</phrase> looks Ok to me, but, as with 
@role, the semantics of its content is not prima facie clear to human or 
machine consumers of you XML. Therefore, if it’s your private data and 
your private processing tool, you could use @role as well. Sometimes 
@role will be used for conveying other information. So you if you 
sometimes use @role also for other purposes, such as providing rendering 
hints, you might revert to @remap in order to avoid space-separated 
keywords within @role. (As an aside, if a city is always to be rendered 
with small-caps, there is no need for <phrase role="small-caps 
city">Edinburgh</phrase>, an appropriate styling  for role="city" will 
be sufficient.)

Gerrit


On 18.10.2018 10:16, Peter Fleck wrote:
> If I have some text like this:
> 
> <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,*Edinburgh*  consectetur adipiscing*Scotland*  elit. Aenean eu finibus sapien.</para>
> 
> And I want to mark it up with semantic information for items like 
> <country> or <city> etc and not be displayed “verbatim”, to validate I 
> currently would need to put them in address:
> 
> <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,*<address><city>Edinburgh</city></address>*  consectetur adipiscing*<address><country>Scotland</country></address>*  elit. Aenean eu finibus sapien.</para>
> 
> For me, this context is not an address but I still want the semantic of 
> <city> etc. Does it make sense to allow <address> children to be a child 
> of <para> as well? Or should I mark this type of semantic information 
> differently? For example, <phrase role="city">Edinburgh</phrase>?
> 
> <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,*<city>Edinburgh</city> *consectetur adipiscing*<country>Scotland</country>*  elit. Aenean eu finibus sapien.</para>
> 
> Peter
> 

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