[Lexicog] Re: Tshwanelex when the structure of your articles often changes

[langwijmijij]

Hi Loig,
The way I'd do it would be as follows:

. define a 'pronunciation' element type that includes two child elements, pronunciation and source, and make it repeatable. 
. define an 'example' element type with example, translation and source as child elements.
. define a couple of grammar element types, each of which has the child elements you need for each type (one that has plurals, gender, etc, and another that has participles, etc).

(Remember that for each type of information you can add more than one instance of it.)

Then for each headword you can choose what type of grammatical information you need to enter.

Think of an entry not as having a bunch of items linearly strung together, but a set of hierarchically ordered and embedded items. 

Claire



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