Reading Frank's post on abbreviations, I noticed the 'isInstitution' predicate on a name. Looking at
https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/blob/master/csl-data.json I also noticed 'journalAbbreviation' and 'shortTitle' even though most other terms use a minus instead to connect terms (this includes predicates, e.g., 'comma-suffix', 'static-ordering'). Implementing the format and providing a consistent API interface therefore requires a ridiculous amount of converting back and forth between taxonomies and trying to sanitize input. Now, I know that religious wars have been fought about this, however, it would make all our lives much easier if there were a standard rule for attribute names. Barring perhaps Lisp, minuses in names are not very practical, but since a majority of the terms use a minus (plus the CSL attributes do, too) I would suggest to stick with that convention. Thoughts? Sylvester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
