[osis-core] osisWork regex problem

[Chris Little]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Harry Plantinga wrote:

> I suggested authorID_bookID, but the regex apparently 
> doesn't understand that value.  I don't have schema documentation
> handy, so I can't debug the regex right now except by guessing, 
> but shouldn't that be an acceptable value?
> 
> Here's the regex: ((\p{L}|\p{N}|_)*)((\.(\p{L}|\p{N}|_)+)*)?

If this is the schema as it stands, the first * needs to be changed to a 
+.  Currently, "" is a valid osisWork.

Also, just on the implementation side, what I have been using is something 
more like "authorID.bookID".  That helps by grouping works by author.  If 
the author had first & last names, I might even do 
lastNameID.firstNameID.bookID rather than lastName_firstName.bookID.  Can 
you explain some of the reasoning behind your choice to go with 
authorID_bookID & do you see that as better than authorID.bookID?

--Chris