[osis-core] Reference Syntax Proposal - Suggestion

[Kees F. de Blois]

Thanks for your reply, Todd.

> My view was that a chapter usually IS a <div> rather than an 
> attribute of a <div> in the same way that a verse IS a 
> <verse> and that <div> carries an osisID so that it can self 
> identify things like chapters and books.  This does not 
> assume that every chapter must be a <div> or that every <div> 
> must carry an osisID.
> 
> Naturally we will see <div> elements that contain several 
> chapters as in the Ps for the major groupings of chapters.  
> It is possible (although I can't point to a specific case) to 
> have a div that starts in one chapter and ends in another.

> If the encoder wants to ALWAYS have a <div> element that 
> precisely contains EVERY chapter AND there are cases where 
> other <div> elements start within a chapter and end in 
> another chapter then one of the <div> elements will have to 
> segmented.  When rendering the process will have to account 
> for such cases.
> 

Examples: the discourse on the Suffering Servant from Isaiah 52:12 up to
53:12.

> > 
> > In the parallel references following the section heading 
> "The Purpose
> of
> > the Parables" the reference to Luke 8.9-10 is split into 
> two. You did 
> > not do this for the Mark 4.10-12 parallel, why?
> > 
> 
> I created my version from the XSEM encoding of the TEV.  In 
> that encoding Luke.8.9-Luke.8.10 was split into two separate 
> references.  I will have to look at the printed version to 
> see if the original text presents these as three separate 
> references or just two.  Good Eye!
> 

Just two in printed TEV.

Thanks for all your explanations.

Kees