[osis-core] semantics of <divineName>?

[Patrick Durusau]

Chris,

Sorry for the delayed response! I picked up your original post after 
seeing you mention it again.

Agree, the current situation at least as represented in the manual is 
ambiguous.

DM, can you send a list of the types that we would need on <divineName> 
to cure this problem?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Chris Little wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> What are the semantics of the <divineName> element? My understanding 
> of where we stood as of the last time <divineName> was brought up at a 
> meeting was that it should be used for tagging translations of the 
> tetragrammaton (or conceivably the tetragrammaton itself) exclusively, 
> since it is largely a signal to do things like small-caps "Lord". All 
> other divine epithets (e.g. "El Shaddai") or small-caps text (e.g. 
> small-caps "Branch" and "Jesus") would thus need to use another 
> element (e.g. <name>). This decision was part of the reason for not 
> giving any types to <divineName>.
>
> DM Smith pointed out that the manual specifically includes 
> "<divineName>El Shaddai</divineName>" as an example usage of 
> <divineName>. And another example includes "<divineName 
> type="x-yhwh">Lord</divineName>".
>
> I think we either need to limit <divineName> to the tetragrammaton 
> (and note this in the manual) or add (potentially many, but I think DM 
> Smith can supply us a list) registered types for Yahweh, El Shaddai, 
> etc. Otherwise there is ambiguity since we can't depend on everyone to 
> just assume that "x-yhwh" is the right way to type a <divineName> 
> corresponding to the tetragrammaton.
>
> --Chris
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Patrick Durusau
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