[osis-core] OSIS: linking

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

>Do you have any good examples?
>
Unfortunately full XLink support is not common (yet!). Closest thing so 
far is from http://4suite.org/ and perhaps from Fujitsu (I have written 
for an update on their software, XLIP).

For a largely theoretical discussion you can check out Rusty Harold's 
XML Bible, or the online version of the relevant chapter at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch19.html

It is something that I think is really needed for a number of purposes 
but given the utility of simple HTML links for flat-texters there does 
not seem to be much of a push to make it happen. (Even the Amaya browser 
from the W3C does not support XLinks, but being the home of flat-texters 
that is not all that surprising. What is surprising is that they let 
Steve do such a good job with XLink/XPointer.)

Patrick

>
>Todd
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:owner-osis-
>>core@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
>>Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 11:53 AM
>>To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
>>Subject: [osis-core] OSIS: linking
>>
>>(No number because probably not an issue for this release.)
>>
>>Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>>
>>>Troy,
>>>
>>>I know this is not what you are after with the rich example but
>>>
>looking
>
>>at
>>
>>>the richness of the example points out the fact that it is unlikely
>>>
>that
>
>>any
>>
>>>document will include ALL of the possible <w> type elements.
>>>
>>>Any ideas on how we could represent the <w> elements in a separate
>>>
>>document
>>
>>>that are not included in the scripture document itself?
>>>
>>Sure, declare xlinks in an associate document that carry the
>>
>attributes
>
>>you want to associate with words and then embed the text from the OSIS
>>file. Easy with extended XLink, less easy with current broken
>>implementations.  With an XLink enabled browser, document appears as
>>though the information was embedded in the file, although it resides
>>
>in
>
>>separate documents.
>>
>>Patrick
>>
>>--
>>Patrick Durusau
>>Director of Research and Development
>>Society of Biblical Literature
>>pdurusau@emory.edu
>>
>>
>

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu