Can a single cite within a citation reference more than one url/accessed date pairs? - csl

Question

Let's say that I have a reference such as:
title "Hello World"
urls
- http://example.com/foo (accessed 20/03/2018)
- http://example.com/bar (accessed 10/05/2015)
(And let's say that the above reference is processed into a form that a CSL processor can understand; citeproc-js in this case)
Does the CSL specification allow to produce a citation (from this only reference) that looks like this?
Hello World! http://example.com/foo (accessed 20/03/2018); http://example.com/bar (accessed 10/05/2015)
I know I could support one pair with this: (simplified style for the example)
<citation>
<layout>
<text variable="title" suffix=" "/>
<group>
<text variable="URL" suffix=" "/>
<date variable="accessed" prefix="(" suffix=")">
<date-part name="day" suffix="/"/>
<date-part name="month" suffix="/"/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
</layout>
</citation>
But how do I "iterate" over multiple pairs?
It doesn't seem that the CSL specification nor the schema for CSL data support this. Am I wrong?

Answer 1

You can do this with two citations, e.g.:
- type: webpage
URL: http://example.com/foo (accessed 20/03/2018)
- type: webpage
URL: http://example.com/bar (accessed 10/05/2015)
Style snippet
<citation>
<layout delimiter="; ">
<group>
<text variable="URL" suffix=" "/>
<date variable="accessed" prefix="(" suffix=")">
<date-part name="day" suffix="/"/>
<date-part name="month" suffix="/"/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
</layout>
</citation>
And then simply include "Hello World!" in the text. Note the delimiter in layout that determines how the two elements are separated.