[osis-core] special milestone element deletion

[Patrick Durusau]

Troy,

Can you just send the citation to the passage? I agree the situation 
looks ugly but I don't think that you have to use the milestones as 
indicated. You could use <q> and segment the quote. It is really not an 
either or situation. I realize you don't like segmentation but the 
reason why segmentation arose in the first place was for cases like the 
one you are asking about.

Patrick

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> After trying to encode a text, I strongly feel that having a single 
> element to be used for all milestone-type tagging is the wrong solution.
>
> problems:
>
> Were do you expect one to place all attributes usually associated with 
> a tag?  I've been 'hacking' them all into subtype as a '|' delimited 
> list.  This can't be the best way to recommend to our users to encode 
> these things.
>
> I don't feel forcing a special element just because a textual 
> situation requires the anomaly of 'milestone'-type markup, because of 
> XML rules, is the proper solution.
>
>
> A <q> is still a quote and the <q> tag has been specialized to contain 
> all the data for a quote.
>
> forcing all that data into something like:
>
> <milestone_Start type="q" subType="type:block|speaker:John|level:2" />
>
> just doesn't seem to make sense.
>
>     -Troy.


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