John,<div><br></div><div>In terms of EAD itself, you can certainly have a &lt;container&gt; on any component, regardless of the @level value.  It&#39;s really a matter of local practice.  My opinion is that if you have a subseries and want to associate a box value with it, go for it.  DACS is silent on this as well, I believe.  </div>
<div><br></div><div>This may make the XSLT more or less complicated depending on how you display your &lt;dsc&gt;, but I&#39;ve never heard a good argument against it.  Here at Yale we rarely associate containers with series or subseries, but our stylesheets support it if we were so inclined.  Revise away!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div>EAD Coordinator</div><div>Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library</div><div>Yale University</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:14 PM, John Bewley <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1004%26L%3DEAD%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D740554%26B%3D--0016361e7efef7f46304845ed6b4%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">A question vaguely related to the ongoing discussion about &lt;cxx&gt; and levels.<br>
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Is it &quot;correct&quot; hierarchical thinking to state a &lt;container&gt; within a &lt;c0X&gt; with level attribute set to subseries? I can see that the tag library does not prohibit it and have found examples of it happening in Library of Congress EAD guideline examples. But, the XSL stylesheet we are using (I believe it was adapted from one of the EAD Cookbook stylesheets) is designed so that &lt;c02 level=&quot;subseries&quot;&gt; (for example) will not have &lt;container&gt; stated within it.<br>

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Here&#39;s an example of &lt;container&gt; stated within &lt;c02 level=&quot;subseries&quot;&gt; from the LC EAD guidelines:<br>
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&lt;c02 level=&quot;subseries&quot;&gt;<br>
   &lt;did&gt;<br>
      &lt;container type=&quot;box&quot;&gt;I:267&lt;/container&gt;<br>
      &lt;unittitle encodinganalog=&quot;245$a&quot;&gt;Case Files, &lt;unitdate encodinganalog=&quot;245$f&quot; type=&quot;inclusive&quot; normal=&quot;1971/1975&quot;&gt;1971-1975&lt;/unitdate&gt;&lt;/unittitle&gt;<br>

   &lt;/did&gt;<br>
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Just seeking some thoughts before I do any major revisions to our container list stylesheet.<br><font color="#888888">
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John Bewley<br>
Music Library<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
716 645-0614<br>
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