I asked a similar question some time ago but none of the gurus replied.
My interpretation of the TEI synatx (and I don't think it's clear in the draft)
is that a sequence like:
is identical to the (meaningful) sequence
FOO(1,BAR1)FOO(2,BAR2)FOO(3,BAR3)
and the operator is implicit in the shorter form. JUMBO would presently
expand your query to:
CHILD(2,article)CHILD(3,issue)CHILD(4,year)
which would fail for your document. A typical query for me would be
CHILD(1,YEAR)(2,ISSUE)(1,ARTICLE)
which would be equivalent to
ID(FOO)
If you want ALL of something, you have to write ALL (the spec is clear
on that :-)
*** TEI experts/ERB *** please shine some light on this :-) *********
P.
-- Peter Murray-Rust, domestic net connection Virtual School of Molecular Sciences http://www.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/