[osis-core] osisRef behavior/usage (not syntax)

[Patrick Durusau]

Guys,

Well, high speed Internet over the TV! :-( Tried holding my laptop up to 
the screen but the scan/OCR function on the TV must not be working. ;-) 
Doing dialup, which means I am doing peek-n-post so I don't end up with 
a phone bill larger than the room charges. ;-)

I will be downloading all your latest posts when I send these off and 
will compose replies offline. I have ISO meetings all day from Saturday 
to Monday so expect at least one peek-n-post session in the early AM and 
one in the evening.

Questions on the behavior of osisRefs:

1. Should all OSIS elements allow an osisRef attribute?

2. Off the top of my head I would say <verse>, <q>, <reference>, but 
then I don't know what cross-references or at what level they might be 
useful for a particular text?

3. An osisRef may point inside the document, in which case it is fixed 
(cannot be overidden) to use of the work declared for the document, or 
it may point outside the document, in which case it can omit work 
(whether specified directly or by some inheritance mechanism) but only 
at its own peril, i.e., if I say osisRef="Matt.1.1", then any osisID 
with any prepended work that matches "Matt.1.1" is a legitimate return 
on the osisRef (may get wrong edition, version, language, possible with 
apocrypha to get a null if your only version is one of the limited 
editions of the Bible. ;-)

4. Users urged in prose to use a standard set of Work and reference 
system references produced by OSIS to increase interoperability of their 
documents.

Thoughts?

Patrick 

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