[osis-core] Error on identifier (colon required to match regex)

Todd Tillinghast osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:02:13 -0700


Troy,

I like what you are saying by having the <identifier> with a type
attribute value of "OSIS" identify that this is THE identifier that can
be used programatically.  We would need to say in the users manual that
there should only be one <identifier type="OSIS">.  

The next piece is who is the _naming authority_ who is allocating and
managing translation names that are the value of <identifier
type="OSIS"> for Bibles? (<identifier
type="OSIS">osis:Bible.es.RVR.1960</identifier> where the type="OSIS"
indicates that this is the identifier that should be used
programatically and the prefix "osis:" indicates that the following
value is a value allocated/administrated by Bible Technologies.)

I have no objection to Bible Technologies being the _naming authority_
for Bible translation names.  Over the past several months we have not
shown a unified desire to act in that role.  There are advantages in
having an organized group which a large number of Bible agencies are
members act as the naming authority.  There are also disadvantages.  

I think there would be greater advantages if Bible Technologies were to
be the authority and all of the Bible agencies were to adopt/endorse the
naming authority. 

The question is who would administrate the naming process if Bible
Technologies takes on that role?

(I would expect that things that are not Bibles that other groups would
act as the naming authority.  Naturally we would have the option to
consider naming classes of documents on a case by case basis.)

What are your thoughts?

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org 
> [mailto:osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of 
> Troy A. Griffitts
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 2:24 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] Error on identifier (colon required 
> to match regex)
> 
> 
> Todd,
> 	I'm NOT against this organization deciding on unique 
> OSIS IDs for all 
> of their Bibles.  I'm all for that.
> 
> 	I don't think it matters one way or another if BTG is 
> going to act as 
> an authority for naming.
> 
> 	We NEED a way to distinguish all of the identifiers 
> from the ONE 
> identifier we're using to programmatically look up an OSIS 
> document in a 
> library of OSIS documents.
> 
> 	I personally don't care about ISBN, or any other type 
> of identifier 
> that we allow.  They may be useful for other people, and even 
> my end users.
> 
> 	There IS (or was last week) a way for a software system (like 
> CrossWire's) to get unique IDs and speak about unique 
> documents with the 
> <identifier type="OSIS"> construct.  This must not go away.
> 
> 	If you want to add an optional prefix that specifies 
> who decided on the 
> name, that's fine.  I don't see any use for it, and forcing 
> it will mean 
> you can NEVER do what I think you see for a use: supply one for the 
> <work osisWork="fba"> to point to their canonical list (eternal 
> recursion).  You could do the same thing with 
> FBA.Bible.es.RVR.1960 if 
> that's the naming structure they decided.  I don't like it, but I can 
> live with either.
> 
> 	But I can't live without type="OSIS" to tell me which 
> <identifier> is 
> the canonical OSIS name for the document.
> 
> 	-Troy.
> 
> 
> Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> > Troy and Patrick,
> > 
> > Yes, the type attribute on <identifier> should be "x-*".  Initially 
> > Patrick had made type on <identifier> and not <identifier> itself 
> > osisGenType.  It looks like <identifier> is now correct but 
> the type 
> > attribute needs to be fixed.
> > 
> > The correct form would be:
> > 
> > 
> <identifier>namingAuthorityWorkPrefix:Canonical.Name.Here</identifier>
> > 
> > I had already been talking to the various Bible agencies (in TX and 
> > the
> > UK) about adopting a common naming structure.  Because the Bible
> > Technologies group is not going to act as a naming authority, I have
> > proposed that the Forum of Bible Agencies act as a naming 
> authority for
> > modern Bible translations.  I believe that 95% or more of the modern
> > translations are owned by a member of the Forum of Bible 
> Agencies either
> > directly or indirectly.  If the proposal moves forward then 
> you would
> > encode something like the following.
> > 
> > <osisText osisIDWork="rvr" ...>
> >    <header>
> >       <work osisWork="rvr">
> >          ...
> >          <identifier>fba:Bible.es.RVR.1960</identifier>
> >          ...
> >       </work>
> >       <work osisWork="fba">
> >          <title>Forum of Bible Agencies Bible Translation 
> > Identifiers</title>
> >          ...
> >       </work>
> >    </header>
> > </osisText>
> > 
> > The "OSIS" value would no longer be appropriate because the Bible 
> > Technologies group is not acting as the naming authority.
> > 
> > My hope would be that the Bible translations held by the Bible 
> > agencies who are not members of the Forum of Bible Agencies 
> would also 
> > adopt identifiers allocated by the Forum of Bible Agencies.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Todd
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org
> >>[mailto:osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of 
> >>Troy A. Griffitts
> >>Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:08 PM
> >>To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> >>Subject: Re: [osis-core] Error on identifier (colon required 
> >>to match regex)
> >>
> >>
> >>I believe the 'type' attribute on the 'identifier' element
> >>should not be 
> >>restricted by 'osisGenType'
> >>
> >><identifier type="OSIS">OSIS.Canonical.Name.Here</identifier>
> >>
> >>should be allowed and is THE way to unambiguously refer to an
> >>OSIS document.
> >>
> >>	-Troy.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Patrick Durusau wrote:
> >>
> >>>Troy,
> >>>
> >>>type on identifier is defined as:
> >>>
> >>><xs:attribute name="type" type="osisGenType"/>
> >>>
> >>>Which calls the regex you mention below.
> >>>
> >>>I removed the enumeration of values and replaced it with 
> the regex, 
> >>>which allows you to declare the identifier in a work.
> >>>
> >>>The reason for the error is that the regex requires OSIS: and not
> >>>simply
> >>>OSIS. The reasoning was that usually an identifier will be 
> >>
> >>used in a
> >>
> >>>number of places with more parts of the identifier
> >>
> >>following and so the
> >>
> >>>need to enforce the ":" separator.
> >>>
> >>>Will this be a problem? Note we get the same behavior with type on 
> >>>subject, i.e., incorrect DEWEY, correct DEWEY:.
> >>>
> >>>In a way it does call the user's attention to the proper 
> use of the 
> >>>identifier itself as being identifier + colon.
> >>>
> >>>This also requires identifier + colon in Lemma, Morph and
> >>
> >>POS, but we
> >>
> >>>are used to seeing them there anyway.
> >>>
> >>>Comments?
> >>>
> >>>Hope everyone is having a great day!
> >>>
> >>>Patrick
> >>>
> >>>Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hey guys.  Here's the report on the run of the latest
> >>
> >>schema against
> >>
> >>>>my latest encoding of the NASB:
> >>>>
> >>>>[scribe@troyslaptop msv]$ java -jar msv.jar ./osisCore.xsd
> >>
> >>./nasb.xml
> >>
> >>>>start parsing a grammar. validating ./nasb.xml
> >>>>Error at line:7, column:45 of
> >>
> >>file:///space/home/scribe/msv/./nasb.xml
> >>
> >>>>  attribute "type" has a bad value: the value does not match the
> >>>>regular expression 
> >>>>
> >>
> >>"((((\p{L}|\p{N}|_)+)(\.(\p{L}|\p{N}|_))*:)((((\p{L})|(\p{N}))
> >>+)(((\.(\p{L}|\p{N}|_)+)*))?))".
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>the document is NOT valid.
> >>>>
> >>>>it fails on this line:
> >>>>                    <identifier 
> type="OSIS">Bible.NASB</identifier>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Here's the head of the doc:
> >>>>
> >>>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >>>><osis xmlns="http://www.bibletechnologies.net/2003/OSIS/namespace"
> >>>>xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> >>>>
> >>
> >>xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bibletechnologies.net/2003/OSIS
> >>/namespace
> >>
> >>>>osisCore.1.9.xsd">
> >>>>     <osisText osisIDWork="nasb" xml:lang="en">
> >>>>          <header>
> >>>>               <work osisWork="nasb">
> >>>>                    <title>NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE</title>
> >>>>                    <identifier 
> type="OSIS">Bible.NASB</identifier>
> >>>>                    <rights>Copyright (C)
> >>>>1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by THE LOCKMAN 
> >>>>FOUNDATION</rights>
> >>>>                    <refSystem>Bible</refSystem>
> >>>>               </work>
> >>>>               <work osisWork="strongs">
> >>>>               </work>
> >>>>          </header>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>><div type="book" osisID="Matt"><title type="main" 
> >>>>subType="x-Book">MATTHEW</title>
> >>>><chapter osisID="Matt.1"><title type="sub"
> >>
> >>subType="x-Chapter">CHAPTER
> >>
> >>>>1</title>
> >>>><title type="sub" subType="x-Section">The Genealogy of Jesus the
> >>>>Messiah</title>
> >>>><verse osisID="Matt.1.1"><w lemma="strongs:G976">The <note 
> >>>>type="explanation" osisID="Matt.1.1.note.1" 
> >>
> >>n="1"></note>record</w> <w
> >>
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G1078">of the genealogy</w> <w
> >>
> >>lemma="strongs:G2424">of
> >>
> >>>><note type="explanation" osisID="Matt.1.1.note.2"
> >>>>n="2"></note>Jesus</w> <note type="explanation" 
> >>>>osisID="Matt.1.1.note.3" n="3"></note><w 
> lemma="strongs:G5547">the 
> >>>>Messiah</w>, <note type="crossReference" osisID="Matt.1.1.xref.A" 
> >>>>n="A"></note><w lemma="strongs:G5207">the son</w> <w 
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G1160b">of David</w>, <note type="crossReference" 
> >>>>osisID="Matt.1.1.xref.B" n="B"></note><w 
> lemma="strongs:G5207">the 
> >>>>son</w> <w lemma="strongs:G11">of Abraham</w>:
> >>>><milestone type="line" subType="x-PM"/></verse><verse 
> >>>>osisID="Matt.1.2"><w lemma="strongs:G11">Abraham</w> <note 
> >>>>type="explanation" osisID="Matt.1.2.note.1" n="1"></note><w 
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G1080">was the father</w> <w 
> >>
> >>lemma="strongs:G2464">of
> >>
> >>>>Isaac</w>, <note type="explanation" osisID="Matt.1.2.note.2"
> >>>>n="2"></note><w lemma="strongs:G2464">Isaac</w> <w 
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G1080">the father</w> <w lemma="strongs:G2384">of 
> >>>>Jacob</w>, <w lemma="strongs:G2384">and Jacob</w> <w 
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G1080">the father</w> <w 
> >>
> >>lemma="strongs:G2455">of <note
> >>
> >>>>type="explanation" osisID="Matt.1.2.note.3"
> >>
> >>n="3"></note>Judah</w> <w
> >>
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G80">and his brothers</w>.
> >>>></verse><verse osisID="Matt.1.3"><w
> >>
> >>lemma="strongs:G2455">Judah</w> <w
> >>
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G1080">was the father</w> <w
> >>
> >>lemma="strongs:G5329">of
> >>
> >>>>Perez</w> <w lemma="strongs:G2196">and Zerah</w> <w
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G2283">by Tamar</w>, <note type="crossReference" 
> >>>>osisID="Matt.1.3.xref.A" n="A"></note><w 
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G5329">Perez</w> <w lemma="strongs:G1080">was the 
> >>>>father</w> <w lemma="strongs:G2074">of Hezron</w>, <w 
> >>>>lemma="strongs:G2074">and Hezron</w> <w lemma="strongs:G1080">the 
> >>>>father</w> <w lemma="strongs:G689">of <note type="explanation" 
> >>>>osisID="Matt.1.3.note.1" n="1"></note>Ram</w>.
> >>>>
> >>>>Patrick Durusau wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Guys,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Getting closer all the time!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Note that I have added an enumerated type on <seg> of otPassage.
> >>>>>That
> >>>>>allows Troy to avoid default rendering of quotes but also 
> >>
> >>allows me
> >>
> >>>>>to avoid trying to add another content model when I am
> >>
> >>already tired.
> >>
> >>>>>Should Troy's analysis of usage prove accurate, which it 
> very well 
> >>>>>may, we may need to revisit this issue for this type of
> >>
> >>passage and
> >>
> >>>>>others. For my part, if "the very stones would cry out,"
> >>
> >>the Rolling
> >>
> >>>>>Stones that is, we may need to revisit this issue. ;-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I think this is about as close as I can get today. 
> Please run your 
> >>>>>various texts against it and let me know the results.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Really do appreciate all the hard work!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Hope everyone is having a great day!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Patrick
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>
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