[osis-core] OSIS work regex

[Steve DeRose]

At 03:12 PM -0600 08/14/02, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>We had decided NOT to allow a leading numeral.  I believe that only in
>the recent incarnations of the schema, where we stated from scratch with
>the reg exp, have we dropped that no leading numeral requirement.


I thought we had decided in Rome to allow it again, as people seemed 
to dislike not having it.

>
>The bigger question is will we keep the ":".  That will be much more
>painful to remove than disallowing a leading numeral.


True; we do need some reserved delimiters to separate work from ref 
from grain, though; plus the range delimiter for osisRef. I think all 
we have in IDs is hyphen, underscore, and dot; hyphen is obvious for 
range, dot is our internal token delimiter, which only leaves _, 
which is awfully useful for breaking up names. Currently we also use 
[]. So is it actually feasible to make these things be IDs at this 
point?

>
>Also I don't see a reason to not allow ideographs, etc..

I tend to agree we should allow them; presumably there's an escape 
for that set in schema regexes?



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