[osis-core] Is this ready for OSIS 1.1? Overlapping heirarchies

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,



Todd Tillinghast wrote:

>There seems to be little help for multiple overlapping heirarchies.
>
If you check the message that arrived while you were dodging forest 
fires you will find messages essentially concedeing  that we don't have 
a good solution for overlap but that we will address that issue again in 
OSIS 2.0.

>
>There was Troy's points about what would seem reasonable as move complex
>releases come about.
>
The present proposal does not, in my opinion, seriously limit the scope 
of a solution in a future release.

>
>Did we say that a <verse> element can never be split and that a verse must
>always be represented by multiple <seg> elements?  If not why do we have
><seg>?
>
There is a difference between segementing a verse, which bears next and 
prev attributes and the <seg> element which can appear in a verse to 
mark some phrase that we have failed to provide an element to encode. We 
have no element for curse (in the sense of a formula) for example. I 
could have <seg type="curse">Woe is the day of my birth</seg> which 
would occur inside of a verse (the verse is not segmented in any sense).


>
>How do we handle the cases previously brought up regarding Matt 13?  These
>are not hypothetical cases but real cases.
>
Personally I would do the quotes in Matt 13 using the milestone element. 
Those are not meaningful containers (in my opinion) and I would not 
struggle to make them so.

It is also possible to see every typographical feature in any 
translation as a container and to insist that some elegant solution be 
found to represent such matters. I don't think there is one, I have not 
seen one suggested and I think we need to acknowledge there will be some 
pathological cases and move on. I think there are better solutions for 
some cases than others and I hope that we can provide some of those by 
OSIS 2.0.

Patrick



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