[osis-core] dictionary/glossary question

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings,

Just cleaning up the mail along with the major posts (yes osisRef is 
still coming later today) and thought about Harry's problem with using 
up type on label and item if he tries to use list for a dictionary. (I 
still think dictionary markup is a snakepit that we don't want to tackle 
for basic markup.)

For the back-of-the-book glossary, simply term/definition (you will note 
I am skipping over multiple forms, pronunciation, alternatives 
spellings, grammatical information, and that is a subset of what occurs 
before the actual definition. It gets worse from thereon out. ;-) I 
still think with the role attribute  (discovered for use  with  the <a> 
and other elements by Harry) we  can get the extra information that 
Harry needs without using up  type (which may be needed for something else.

Proposal: add role attribute as global. Document to use with label and 
item to say role="term" for label and role="definition" for item  to do 
simple glossary/dictionary type items.

Note  that <label> includes <w>  so if you want to add  the form of a 
word you could.

Does that get us most of the way?

Patrick

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