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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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk28D2gACgkQh4kzvOqyWhDFxwCeNIvh+pRN/e+Jp80VrScctA2C IwcAoJPIElHaccLTgs9Wr3ly/jPBoTqP =SINL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
