[sword-devel] ESV Bug: cross reference problem

[DM Smith]

Deut 22.22 has two cross references. The first one works, the second  
one does not.

I've spent some time studying the verse content and also some other  
verses containing <note type="crossReference">...</note>

It appears that the assumption is that crossReference (xref, for  
short) notes only contain a list of <reference> elements. The web  
tool takes each of these, gets the verse and presents it in a popup  
div. All other text in the note is ignored.

However, this assumption is not valid. In the case of ESV, most xref  
notes are surrounded by [ ... ] and contain a semi-colon separated  
list of references. However some also contain additional text and  
some contain only text.

In the case of the second note, it contains only text and no  
<reference> elements.

There is another problem with the encoding of some xref notes, e.g.  
Deut 22.5. A good number of them end with ]0x19. That is a closing  
bracket followed by Unicode 0x19. This character is stripped out by  
this front end. Not sure how other front-ends handle it.

I found a problem with the web tool using safari. It may just be my  
newness to the Mac. I cannot figure out how to dismiss an xref popup  
div.