[osis-core] Wrapping up?

[Steve DeRose]

At 09:47 PM -0600 07/22/02, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
...

>  > > <verse osisID="Bible.Todd:Mark.1.1-9" altIDs="Mark.1.1 Mark.1.2
>Mark.1.3
>  > > Mark.1.4 Mark.1.5 Mark.1.6 Mark.1.7 Mark.1.8 Mark.1.9">....</verse>

I had been refraining from raising the issue of where to put the form 
the translator wants *displayed*, but this example got me thinking of 
it.

I'm not sure we've explicitly determined whether we expect software 
to create display forms of reference markers from the attributes. 
Since we didn't provide any tag for putting it in content, that seems 
reasonable.

In that case, we could make the above example more palatable (I 
think) by renaming:

<verse displayID="Bible.Todd:Mark.1.1-9" osisIDs="Mark.1.1 Mark.1.2
Mark.1.3 Mark.1.4 Mark.1.5 Mark.1.6 Mark.1.7 Mark.1.8 Mark.1.9">....</verse>

It's still a little ugly, but less so than 9 pairs of co-indexed 
milestones. And we can use the same mechanism to allow putting 
identifiers from multiple reference systems on the same element 
(you'd have to prefix the ref sys name of course).

This also buys us the absolutely indispensible and crucial case 
(yeah, right) of where Paul quotes Epimenides of Crete (about all 
Cretans being gluttons etc): one can imagine someone wanting to mark 
this both as being Titus 1:12, and as being some reference in one of 
Epimenides' works (none of which, sadly, have survived -- but maybe 
someone will dig up a manuscript someday, or assign canonical ids to 
the fragments we have). Paul apparently also quotes Aratus ( 
Acts.17.28 ) and Menander ( 1Cor.15.33 ).

Hmmmm

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Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
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