[osis-core] osisCore_Candiate_1.1_003 - 10 reference to an entire work.

[Steve DeRose]

At 11:14 AM -0600 08/21/02, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>Currenly we have a nice mechanism to point to a reference within a work
>but not to an entire work or reference system.
>
><reference osisRef="Bible.KJV(Bible.TEV)"/> is invalid.

That is kind of tacky, isn't it?

>
>
>But <reference osisRef="Bible.TEV:Gen"/> is valid.
>
>If we change the regex to no have a ":" then we have no way to
>distinquish between a reference to an entire work or reference system
>and a reference that is defaulting the reference system.  We could allow
>the following:
>
><reference osisRef="Bible.KJV(Bible.TEV):"/>
>
>One ugly thing is that the reference system is not needed when referring
>to the entire work.

True; I could live with that and the extraneous-seeming colon, 
though; this seems a rare enough case that it can get away with being 
a little ugly.

>
>Do we need a <workReference> element?  It is tempting to add another
>attribute to <reference> named osisWorkRef but then both attributes
>would be optional.  I would rather see another element and have the
>attributes be required.
>
>Todd


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