[osis-core] line, lineGroup, lineStart, & lineEnd

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings,

I am still trying to get the rest of the notes from Rome but here are 
two illustrations of using fragmentation to join Ps.2.1 and Ps.2.2:

<verse id="KJV.Ps.2.1" next="KJV.Ps.2.2">Why do the nations plot, and 
why do their people make useless plans?</verse>
<verse id="KJV.Ps.2.2" prev="KJV.Ps.2.1">The kings of this earth have 
joined together to turn against the Lord and his chosen one.</verse>

Actually by allowing a list for the attributes (as was pointed out by 
Todd some emails ago), it would be possible to enumerate any number of 
next and previous values so we could represent any number of 
versification traditions.

Or, we can declare a join element:

<verse id="KJV.Ps.2.1">Why do the nations plot, and why do their people 
make useless plans?</verse>
<verse id="KJV.Ps.2.2">The kings of this earth have joined together to 
turn against the Lord and his chosen one.</verse>

<join targets="KJV.Ps.2.1" KJV="KJV.Ps.2.2" result="verse" 
id="NIV.Ps.2.1-2">

(Not certain about the syntax on the second example since you would want 
to be able to easily distinguish between the composite element and its 
components. The example presumes I am in (or going to) the NIV work 
namespace (in the non-technical sense) but I have marked verse divisions 
according to the KJV. )

Actually could have multiple join elements,  should be fairly easy 
processing with XSLT, so could have multiple versification traditions 
there as well.

I think the upside to either method is that the normal case is handled 
as expected and only the exceptional cases require unusual markup. (That 
is not a principled argument but one of acceptance by a user community. 
We could just as easily handle such cases as out-of-line markup and the 
parsers would not care, but authoring/encoding would be more difficult 
to explain to the average user.)

I will be calling Steve a little later today to see if I can get the 
rest of the notes and will try to have another rough version out by 
later today or early tomorrow.

Patrick


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