Length and Size
This Tag Set has a single general purpose element <size> for recording the number of pages in a book, the showing time of a
film, the number of kilo/mega/tera-bytes in a dataset, or any other measurement of size,
length, or extent that may be recorded for a cited work. The @units attribute should be used whenever possible to
state the units of measure, such as
“pages”,
“minutes”,
“paragraphs”,
“MB”, etc., which is typically given in the
plural.
The size element is assumed to contain the textual value of the size:
<size units="paragraphs">8</size>
In element-style citations (<element-citation>), displaying the units can be handled in the following ways:
- If the
@units attribute value has been tagged
consistently, the text can be generated on display and does not have to be included in
the element content:
<size units="pages">256</size>
- If the publisher or archive does not wish to generate text based on the attribute or
the attributes have not been tagged consistently, the text can be included as content in the
<size> tag:
<size units="pages">256 pages</size>