[osis-core] annotateRef: Question on whitespace

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

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>>What would y'all think of <reference osisRef="X.1.1@s[trouble,2]"/>, 
>>where we rule out whatever punctuation we use? I know, that has it's 
>>own problem of looking like a match that it's not.... I can live with 
>>the extra brackets.
> 
> 
> I like having a the text between [ and ] be the text to match on.
> 
Agree strongly.

> 
>>I do feel strongly, though, that we shouldn't make support for them 
>>optional. I'd rather make support for grains optional in its 
>>entirety, I think it would be less confusing. Of course, any 
>>optionality leads to non-interoperability......
>>
> 
> 
> I think support of grains should not be optional.  I do think be should
> allow the "match number" to default to one.
> 
Agree strongly.

> 
> But I still prefer 
> <reference osisRef="X.1.1@s[trouble][2]"/>
> 

Since Steve says he can live with the extra brackets, unless someone has 
a technical reason for [trouble,2] being preferable, I will rewrite the 
regex as suggested by Todd.

My own reasoning is that Todd's point about the first brackets 
containing the text to match is a good one. I think it will be easier to 
explain that [trouble] matches the first occurrence, period. When asked 
now to match the second or third appearance, then say "you need the 
extra [ ] with the number of the occurrence.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick




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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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