[Lexicog] Re: Tshwanelex DTD Tree

[David Joffe]

Hi Loig,

Just briefly (sorry, been very busy) ... 

> Another question : 
> 
> Is it possible to avoid that my elements are sorted automatically?
> For example, I want to write 2 or 3 variants in a row, with the source 
> just after each of them, and then the translation, but the software only 
> allows this order : Phonetic Example, Source, Orthographic Example, 
> Translation. If I add an example and its source, I get this order: 
> Example, Example, Source, Source, Translation...
> Is it possible to put these elements in the order I want within the 
> "Example" branch of my tree ?

So you mean you want e.g.:

Example, Source, Example, Source?

with the first source 'belonging to' the first example and the 
second 'belonging to' the second example? If I understand correctly, 
then yes, there are at least two ways; the first (and more 
'correct') way is to group things that belong together into further 
sub-element groupings --- this is more 'correct' because it 
explicitly encodes into the data what 'belongs to' what. So for 
example you could have something like:

UsageExample
|__TheExampleItself
|__Source
UsageExample
|__TheExampleItself
|__Source

The second way, which you asked about before, relates to allowing 
more 'free-form' arrangements ... for this you must use the "4.1" 
TshwaneLex version available lower down the page on 
http://tshwanedje.com/tshwanelex/v4/, and then select the 'PCDATA' 
checkbox in the DTD editor on the element that will be the parent of 
the Example and Source etc. elements ... in accordance with the XML 
standard, when an element allows PCDATA, the child elements can then 
be moved in any order relative to one another (their default 
position however would still not be in the best place for your 
scenario, but we plan to soon add an option to have them add by 
default at the end).

There are one or two other ways, but personally I'd go for the first 
one.

Note though that in the TshwaneLex default DTD i.e. default 
'structure', what you ask is already possible, but it's done via 
attributes rather than child elements, meaning the limitation is 
that you can only have one 'example' and one 'source' per usage 
example element, e.g.:

Example element 1 [Example attribute, Source attribute]
Example element 2 [Example attribute, Translation attribute, Source 
attribute]

etc.

 - David



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