Personnel Element?

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From: Richard Knapp (gyp_caver_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 00:31:34 CET 

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From: "Richard Knapp" <gyp_caver_at_yahoo.com>
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My current DTD has the following elements:

<!ELEMENT Person (Role | Comment)*>
<!ATTLIST Person
  name CDATA #IMPLIED
  PID CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT Role EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST Role
  job (CDATA|Book|Sketch|Tape|Instrument|FrontSight|BackSight|Inventory|Other) #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT Personnel (Person+)>

However while reading in COMPASS data I ran across a problem. There is no guaranteed method to split
up survey team members from the COMPASS data. The field is free form so could use "," or ";" or
nothing between members. Soooo, I kludged this instead:

<!ELEMENT Personnel (Person* | PCDATA)>

<Note text="This may not be correct DTD structure but I'm low on caffine right now..."/>

This allows the more descriptive first way and without causing problems with legacy COMPASS (and
possibly other) data.

<Survey>
        <Personnel>Mike Lake, Devin Kouts, John Halleck</Personnel>
</Survey>
<Survey>
        <Personnel>
                <Person name="Mike Lake">
                        <Role job="Book"/>
                        <Role job="Sketch"/>
                </Person>
                <Person name="Devin Kouts">
                        <Role job="FrontSight"/>
                        <Role job="Inventory"/>
                </Person>
                <Person name="Peter Matthews">
                        <Role job="BackSight"/>
                        <Role job="Tape"/>
                <Person>
        </Personnel>
</Survey>
        

(As usuall)... Comments?

Oh, FWIW, I've converted a COMPASS file into CaveXML. I don't know what to do with it yet and I'm
still trying to figure out if there will be instances were more than one cave will be represented (and
what to do about it...).

        - Richard Knapp


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