I got to thinking... I really should have done that in more than one
source. Something like
Marriages in Fladstrand Parish
199
0049002
Title
Film Number
Page Number
* Hans Fugal [Fri, 5 Jul 2002 at 17:50 -0600]
> I'm documenting a source in gdmxml now, and as I expected a lot of
> questions have been raised in my mind.
>
> First is the issue of citation-parts. The citation-part is used to
> store citation parts such as title, author, page, etc. As it stands now
> I would document "Marriages in Fladstrand Parish (Film #0049002), p.
> 199)" [1] as
>
>
>
> Marriages in Fladstrand Parish
>
> 0049002
> 199
> Title
> Film #
> p.
>
> But it seems natural to put the citation-part elements inside a source
> element, like this
>
>
>
> Marriages in Fladstrand Parish
>
> 0049002
> 199
>
> Title
> Film #
> p.
>
> That's easy enough to specify, and it makes sense because there's one
> and only one source per citation-part. Which brings us to
> source-groups. These two relationships hold: One source-group has zero
> to many sources, and one source belongs to zero to many source-groups.
> In a database we definitely want a source-group-source table to get rid
> of this many-to-many relationship. But again we can collapse things a
> bit:
>
>
>
>
>
> group 1
> group 2
>
> Does this approach seem valid? (This would apply in many other places
> throughout the spec.)
>
> You'll probably also noticed I have decided to leave off the "-id" on
> the end of IDREF attributes. It just feels redundant to have it there.
>
> Also, in my hand-cooked examples I used the ID "1" (for example) more
> than once, but for different attributes. Is that valid, or do IDs need
> to be unique even when identifying different element types?
>
> Hans :)
>
> 1. http://fugal.net/andreas/first_fugl/fugl1.htm footnote 2.
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