[osis-core] reference systems: my thoughts - issues

Harry Plantinga osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:21:52 -0400


> 3) It seems unfortunate that the default reference system 
> becomes the work when something other than the work is 
> declared in <osisText> attribute osisWork.  For example if we 
> declare osisWork to be Bible.TEV then the full form of all 
> references becomes Bible.TEV:Matt.1.1 rather than 
> Bible:Matt.1.1, when a reference to the general reference 
> system is likely intended rather than to the specific work.  
> Is there a way we can separate the "default namespace" from osisWork? 

If I am creating the Bible.TEV document, I _should_ be defining 
Bible.TEV:Matt.1.1 osisIDs, shouldn't I?  Of course, I will also
have to define a transformation between Bible.TEV and Bible
if I want to use the "Bible.TEV" osisWork, but it may just
be the identity transformation (which should be easy to specify).

-Harry