[osis-core] Syntax for osisWork

Steve DeRose osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:18:01 -0400


At 05:11 PM -0400 06/30/02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Steve notes:
>
>>C-016: What syntax did we settle on for separting language, 
>>version, edition, author, title, etc within 'work'?
>
>None. ;-)
>
>Basically the full stop delimited syntax but since anything can be 
>referenced in work, not sure we can specify much more.
>
>Not sure if we want to go there but could add an element in the 
>header to hold work declarations with a full set of attributes for 
>all those things. Then osisRef and cite could simply refer to the ID 
>of that item in the header for such information.
>
><osisReferences>
>    <work ID="A1" title="" edition="" lang="" version="" date="" />
></osisReferences>
>

See my posting a minute ago. Same idea except to use DC for the Dcls.

If we don't indirect, we need a lot more than just dot, to be able to 
implement rational fallbackk algorithms.

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