[osis-core] osisCore.1.6.0.xsd

[Todd Tillinghast]

Chris,

> 2) (this one may be fixed by the larger changes being made to the
> schema, but...)  XMLSpy identifies <osis> and <closer> as the two
> possible root elements of an OSIS document.  I don't know if this is
an
> XMLSpy bug or a schema bug, and I couldn't guess how to fix it.
> 

There are actually a number of elements that can be the root element
with osisCore.1.5.xsd.

The new schema will allow ONLY <osis> as the root element, because it is
the ONLY named element.

> 3) <div type="chapter"> is gone....
> I'm sorry I didn't notice this before 1.5 was released, but I don't
> think it was a good idea to simply remove one of the most commonly
used
> div types between minor versions.  Deprecating I could understand.
> Outright removal seems unwise, especially in light of much more minor
> elements that were deprecated rather than being removed.
> 
> I would recommend re-inclusion of chapter in osisDivs with a caveat
that
> it should not be used for Bibles.  The Catechism of the Catholic
Church
> uses a chapter division, but does not use verses, and has numerous
> divisions between chapters and its smallest division anyway, so
> <chapter>/<verse> tags aren't applicable.  When we get into
non-Biblical
> texts more seriously, we're going to run into lots of texts with
chapter
> divisions but no verse divisions, meaning all divisions would be
marked
> by <div>, except one particular division, marked by <chapter>.  It
> returns us, essentially, to the problem of more than one way to mark
> structures that are semantically the same.
> 

Sounds like a convincing argument.

Todd