According to the principals of hierarchical description, couldn't you
just leave the level attribute off if the value is the same as the
parent c or numbered-c component element?

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On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Stella Di Fazio <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> hi all!
>
> for the same reason expressed by Michael Rush, we prefer to encode any
> level of series, no matter in which hierarchical position they are,
> simply as "series", and use XPath to identify the actual level of the
> description unit [series, sub-series, sub-sub-series and so on].
>
> hope this helps
>
> Stella
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> 2011/2/10 Michael Rush <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Christine,
>>
>> I don't recommend that approach.  I when I have sub-subseries, I just
>> encode them with level="subseries".  Keep it simple, as always.  If
>> for some reason you need to identify the actual sub-subseries - in a
>> stylesheet for example - it's a simple xpath: *[@level='subseries' and
>> parent::*[@level='subseries']].
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, De Catanzaro, Christine D
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> This is hopefully a rather straightforward question for the list: For a collection with sub-subseries, when entering the level, would the correct attribute for level be "otherlevel" and then to specify the level would it be "sub-subseries" (with the hyphen)?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Christine
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