[osis-core] osisID as List

[Harry Plantinga]

It was also my understanding of the matter (and my understanding
of Steve's position) that osisIDs are never ranges.  I think that's
a direct quote from Steve.

However, that's a slightly different matter from what I understand
Todd to be proposing -- that a single entity such as a paragraph
could have several osisIDs.  

Take the Matt.1.6-Matt.1.11 case. If a single element corresponds
to several osisIDs, how would you mark that up?  
<p osisID="Matt.1.6">
<p osisID="Matt.1.7">
<p osisID="Matt.1.8">
...
[text of paragraph]
...
</p>
</p>
</p> ?

However, I'm not sure this should really occur. At least in this
example, I would suggest that the CEV is using a different versification
scheme, and it would use some other ID to identify that paragraph,
perhaps Matt.1.6_11 (which is NOT a range, just a single osisID).
A translation would be defined between the two schemes.

But could there ever be cases in which a single elemetn (e.g. paragraph)
corresponds to two or more osisIDs in the chosen reference scheme? 
I'm not sure. Perhaps. So maybe we SHOULD allow a list of osisIDs.

-Harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org 
> [mailto:owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of 
> Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:16 PM
> To: osis-core
> Subject: [osis-core] osisID as List
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Todd took time from dodging the tax man to post several 
> nagging issues 
> that we need to resolve (I have divided them up for ease of 
> consideration):
> 
> First,
> 
> >1) Outstanding is osisID as a list.  We all need to be clear 
> on what an 
> >osisID is and what we intend to be used for.  If osisID is 
> not a list I 
> >cannot encode things like Matt.1.6-Matt.1.11.
> >
> osisID is a self-identifier in a reference system, most generally 
> associated with a book, chapter or verse. The case you cite, from the 
> TEV or CEV, is not an osisID, but is an example of an 
> osisRef, i.e., a 
> pointer to a reference system that is not present in the work you are 
> encoding. That gets you the range operator without either 
> having lists 
> in osisID or adding ranges to it.
> 
> I think the reasoning is that there is really no reference 
> system that 
> has Matt.1.6-Matt.1.11 as a self-identifier for a portion of text.
> 
> Steve, can you confirm?
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Durusau
> Director of Research and Development
> Society of Biblical Literature
> pdurusau@emory.edu
> 
>