Using classSpec to create a valList shared between multiple elements
: Illya Nokhrin
Minutes: 60
DNI uses a valList to restrict the types of names allowed for forename and surname elements. I had previously talked to Martin about coming up with an elegant way to encode this in the ODD. He suggested using macroSpec, but macroSpec cannot take a valList. I have opted to use a classSpec instead, since classSpec can take a valList.
At the moment, the classSpec declaration looks like this:
<classSpec ident="att.nameTypes" type="atts" module="namesdates">
<attList>
<attDef ident="type">
<desc>List of allowed types for forename and surname elements</desc>
<valList type="closed">
<valItem ident="indigenous">
<gloss>Indigenous surname</gloss>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="colonial">
<gloss>Colonial surname in any non-Indigenous language (English, German, etc)</gloss>
</valItem>
</valList>
</attDef>
</attList>
</classSpec>
And the relevant elementSpecs look like this:
<elementSpec ident="surname" mode="change">
<classes mode="change">
<memberOf key="att.typed" mode="delete"/>
<memberOf key="att.nameTypes" mode="add"/>
</classes>
</elementSpec>