[osis-core] osisCore_Candiate_1.1_003 - 10 reference to an entire work.

[Steve DeRose]

At 04:20 PM -0600 08/21/02, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>  > At 11:14 AM -0600 08/21/02, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>>  >Currenly we have a nice mechanism to point to a reference within a
>work
>>  >but not to an entire work or reference system.
>>  >
>>  ><reference osisRef="Bible.KJV(Bible.TEV)"/> is invalid.
>>
>>  That is kind of tacky, isn't it?
>
>With out this sort of syntax we have no way of optionally saying that I
>mean this reference identifier in this reference system in this
>translation.  This is a necessary behavior.  There have been alternate
>syntaxes thrown around over the past year but this seems to make the
>most sense.

Right. I'm sorry I wasn't clear, I meant that the fact that your 
example is currently *invalid* is tacky -- not that the example is. I 
think we *should* allow reference to the whole work, and I don't mind 
the slight ugliness of the dangling colon below, etc.

>
>We did have the work follow the rest of the reference at one point.
>
>What about this seems tacky?  Do you have any alternate suggestions?
>
>Naturally an aliasing mechanism would make things look simpler, but I
>think that would just complicate things for now.

Agreed.


>
>>
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >But <reference osisRef="Bible.TEV:Gen"/> is valid.
>>  >
>>  >If we change the regex to no have a ":" then we have no way to
>>  >distinquish between a reference to an entire work or reference system
>>  >and a reference that is defaulting the reference system.  We could
>allow
>>  >the following:
>>  >
>>  ><reference osisRef="Bible.KJV(Bible.TEV):"/>
>>  >
>>  >One ugly thing is that the reference system is not needed when
>referring
>>  >to the entire work.
>>
>>  True; I could live with that and the extraneous-seeming colon,
>>  though; this seems a rare enough case that it can get away with being
>>  a little ugly.
>
>If we are going to do this we need to adjust the regex accordingly.
>
>>
>>  >
>>  >Do we need a <workReference> element?  It is tempting to add another
>>  >attribute to <reference> named osisWorkRef but then both attributes
>>  >would be optional.  I would rather see another element and have the
>>  >attributes be required.
>>  >
>>  >Todd
>>
>>
>>  --
>>
>>  Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
>>  Chair, Bible Technologies Group -- http://www.bibletechnologies.net
>>  Email: sderose@speakeasy.net
>>  Backup email: sjd@stg.brown.edu
>
>Todd


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Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
Chair, Bible Technologies Group -- http://www.bibletechnologies.net
Email: sderose@speakeasy.net
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