[jsword-devel] Verse markup in OSIS modules

[Joe Walker]

 From a verse markup point of view:
There is a future discussion on alternative verse markups, and one 
possible solution is to have the Russian Bible return the same original 
text translated and the English, but with different verse boundaries. So 
the Key to lookup is defined in terms of English, but the markup 
returned is defined in terms of the visible data.

 From a theoretical touchy feely point of view:
PassageAbstractBook does not feel like the best place to deal with 
module encoding issues to me, it would make more sense to ask the 
filters to do it, or maybe SwordBook is different enough that it should 
have it's own copy of that method.

 From an OSIS point of view:
It sounds like verse milestones are the only really sensible way to 
handle complex markup, and using milestones helps get out of the issues 
of how paragraph markers and verse markers should be used. The fact that 
we currently use verse container elements has complicated our XSL in 
handling paragraphs. So verse milestone feels like a better solution for us.

All of these say that verses should be the domain of the filters and not 
PassageAbstractBook.

I suppose question 2 is should we swap to verse milestones before v1.0 
or after, and I guess that depends on how bit the change is.

Joe.