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On Apr 30, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Rintze Zelle wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Sylvester Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because Rintze suggested to include gender ordinals support in locales into 
> CSL 1.0.1, I wanted to point to another issue with ordinals which could be 
> easily fixed and included in a 1.0.1 release, too.
> 
> Whether this can be introduced in 1.0.1 depends on how the ordinals are 
> defined. Currently, the ordinal index is included in the element name (e.g. 
> "13" in <term name="ordinal-13"/>). This is somewhat limiting for validation, 
> as, as far as I know, you'd have explicitly define each ordinal in the schema 
> (and I guess we don't know the index range that will be needed, although we 
> could just pick a high number). A more flexible approach would be <term 
> name="ordinal" index="13"/>, but this obviously breaks with the convention in 
> CSL 1.0.

True. A flexible approach would be much preferable over having to enumerate 
hundreds of ordinals.

Incidentally, are there any languages with a very inconsistent ordinal 
paradigm? Or languages other than English which more exceptions than three?

Sylvester

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