[osis-core] Re: div types in OSIS

[Todd Tillinghast]

Jim,

Is this a Bible or a Commentary (or a thing structurally like a 
Commentary) you are trying to encode?  (Possibly, translators helps?)

If it is the later you can use the annotateRef attribute (most likely 
with grain references) to precisely indicate not only the levels but 
also the exact portion of sub-text you are annotating. (You should be 
using annotateRef anyway if you are doing what I suspect you are doing.)

Further if this is not a Bible you are free to define your own internal 
reference system and use osisID="A.A.1" then for its children 
osisID="A.A.1.1" and osisID="A.A.1.2", etc...

Todd

Jim_Albright at wycliffe.org wrote:
> Here are the divs found in the wild in SIL commentary:  Translator's Notes 
> on 2TI.
> 
> name in TN                      level           current working name OSIS
> ================================================================================
> p-TitleCenterMedium a >         main type="main"
>                                         b* >            majorSection                        type="majorSection"
> p-Box3Section c >                section                         type="section"
> p-Box4ParaNoSpace|p-Box4Paragraph                d >                paragraph                       type="paragraph"
> p-VerseReference                                                                        e >                verseFragment                        type="???"
> p-MarginSpaceB4[child::TextCited]                        f >                        verseFragment2                  type="???"
> p-IndentBlockSpaceB4[child::TextCited]                g* >                verseFragment3                  type="???"
> p-Indent1stSpaceB4[child::TextCited]                        h*>                verseFramgent4                  type="???"
>  
> * not in current work but projected to be found in other commentaries 
> based on style sheet info 
>         
> Here are my ponderings.
> So I need to have a good OSIS name for the div's concerning 
> verseFramgments. I propose using "verseFragment" and then nesting 
> verseFragment to get the verseFragment2,  verseFragment3,  verseFragment4 
> as my first thought but I really don't like that solution.
> 
> I considered using the 'n" attribute and using it to assign levels but 
> that is abusing the "n" attribute.
> If there were a generic "level" attribute I could use that.
> 
> The following might work:
> 
> level                   current working name            OSIS
> ==================================
>         a >             main    subtype="1"
>         b* >            majorSection                                        subtype="2"
>         c >                section                                                 subtype="3"
>         d >                paragraph                                               subtype="4" 
>         e >                verseFragment                                subtype="5"
>         f >                        verseFragment2                          subtype="6"
>         g >                verseFragment3                          subtype="7"
>         h*>                verseFramgent4                          subtype="8"
> 
> I can't use just plain <div><div> and count how many level's are above it 
> as majorSection can be omitted. I guess I could use
> a plain <div> for verseFragment and then nest <div>s for the other 
> verseFragments.
> 
> level                   current working name            OSIS
> ==================================
>         a >             main    div[@type="main"]
>         b* >            majorSection                                        div{@type="majorSection"]
>         c >                section div[@type="section"]
>         d >                paragraph div[@type="paragraph"]
>         e >                verseFragment                                div[@type="paragraph"]/div
>         f >                        verseFragment2 div[@type="paragraph"]/div/div
>         g >                verseFragment3 div[@type="paragraph"]/div/div/div
>         h*>                verseFramgent4 div[@type="paragraph"]/div/div/div/div
> 
> *********************************************************************************
> *********************************************************************************
> *********************************************************************************
> I still would prefer:
> level                   current working name            OSIS
> ==================================
>         a >             main    div[@type="main"]
>         b* >            majorSection                                        div{@type="majorSection"]
>         c >                section div[@type="section"]
>         d >                paragraph div[@type="paragraph"]
>         e >                verseFragment                                div[@type="verseFragment"]
>         f >                        verseFragment2                          div[@type="verseFragment2"]
>         g >                verseFragment3                          div[@type="verseFragment3"]
>         h*>                verseFramgent4                          div[@type="verseFragment4"]
> *********************************************************************************
> *********************************************************************************
> *********************************************************************************
> 
> or possibly
> level                   current working name            OSIS
> ==================================
>         a >             main    div[@type="main"]
>         b* >            majorSection                                        div{@type="majorSection"]
>         c >                section div[@type="section"]
>         d >                paragraph div[@type="paragraph"]
>         e >                verseFragment div[@subtype="verseFragment"]
>         f >                        verseFragment2                          div[@subtype="verseFragment2"]
>         g >                verseFragment3                          div[@subtype="verseFragment3"]
>         h*>                verseFramgent4                          div[@subtype="verseFragment4"]
> but this seems a bit strange to me.
> 
> Since there are so may div types I would prefer to add some more in order 
> to handle commentaries.
> *********************************************************************************
> I still would prefer:
> level                   current working name            OSIS
> ==================================
>         a >             main    div[@type="main"]
>         b* >            majorSection                                        div{@type="majorSection"]
>         c >                section div[@type="section"]
>         d >                paragraph div[@type="paragraph"]
>         e >                verseFragment div[@type="verseFragment"] 
> Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord:
> 
>         f >                        verseFragment2 div[@type="verseFragment2"] 
> Grace:
> mercy:
> peace:
> God the Father:
> 
>         g >                verseFragment3 div[@type="verseFragment3"]
>         h*>                verseFramgent4 div[@type="verseFragment4"]
> *********************************************************************************
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Albright
> 704 843-0582
> Wycliffe Bible Translators
> 
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