Permit <licence> within <docImprint>

[lb42]

In transcribing early print title pages and similar, it is useful to distinguish licensing phrases such as "cum privilegio" and later variants thereon. Had it been available at the time this was defined, the existing <licence> element would have been proposed as part of the content model of <docImprint> for this purpose. This feature request suggests this might now be done. Without it, the rather inelegant <seg type="privilege"> vel sim is all that seems to be available.

[PFSchaffner]

We struggled a good deal with licenses in EEBO. Most of those that stood apart in any way were tagged as a div (type="license" or type="imprimatur" depending on whether it was a secular or ecclesiastical license). Most of those that occurred simply as a phrase (cum privilegio) or even a complete sentence, in colophons or elsewhere, were largely not tagged as all, unless signed, when they ended up being tagged as a floating text in order to accommodate <signed> etc. This from memory. I'm sure I can come up with thousands of examples of many variants if desired.

[raffazizzi]

Wouldn't <imprimatur> do what you need, @lb42? "contains a formal statement authorizing the publication of a work, sometimes required to appear on a title page or its verso."

[lb42]

Thanks for the suggestion: imprimatur should do very nicely. I suppose the reason I didn't think of it is that I wanted to nest the information within the <docImprint> rather than as a sibling of it (imprimatur is a member of model.titlePagePart only)