Discussion on the handling of redundant seg elements
Ewa is working on the s-rtr.xml file, and has noticed this:
"in a number of entries (e.g., saplil 'flour') there are several form elements, either because there is more than one phonetic transcription attested for the entry, or there is more than one source for the entry, or there is more than one gloss for the entry. The first form element in an entry like this will have a seg type="phonemic" and, if it is attested, a seg type="narrow". But should the remaining form elements have both seg types, when this means repeating the exact same seg type="phonemic" over and over again?"
I can certainly write the code so that in the absence of a phonemic element in a particular form element, it will look at preceding-sibling form elements until it finds one, and use that instead. If that's always going to be the right thing to do, it shouldn't be too hard to implement. Adding this as a task for April: check whether there is already any handling for this, and if not, implement it.