[osis-core] New Schema!

[Patrick Durusau]

Troy,

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

>> Thoughts on reducing the content model of <div> as per Todd? (I am 
>> looking at it and will post suggestions this afternoon/evening. I 
>> slept late, 4:30 AM so probably won't take a nap today. ;-)
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> I say 'nay' due to the fact that we need the ability to annote these 
> things in docs that don't have a 'lower' level of markup.  I may not 
> have paragraph delimeters, or others in my docs.  I probably will have 
> <verse>'s in my Bibles, but now I don't think I would in commentaries. 
> I may even use milestones, in some hard cases, in which the markup 
> would, by XML DOM standards, be a child of <div>.
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> Comments?
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I was trying to remember why the <div> content model was so loose and I 
think it was partially from examples where texts don't follow the 
"right" structure, but the encoder is faced with the text as they find 
it. Different considerations for authoring a new text, well, at least to 
some degree, but rather than have people, 1. cheat by inserting things 
that are not really there to get some particular element, or 2. ignore 
OSIS because it is "too strict", I would prefer at this stage to have 
the looser model.

That is not to say that translators and publishers won't have much 
reduced <div> structures since they should be authoring structurally 
sound documents, even if they want to display them in odd ways. Display 
is something we can handle with stylesheets and the like.

Patrick


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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu