[osis-core] Questions about osisRefs

[Steve DeRose]

At 11:51 AM -0400 08/22/02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>>3.  I want to refer to Psalm.20 (KJV reference system) of the English
>>    LXX.
>>
>>    [same <work> entry as above]
>>
>>    <reference osisRef="lxx_en(Bible.KJV):Psalm.20">
>>
>I am not certain why the reference system should be in the attribute 
>value. Changing your work declaration slightly:
>
><work osisWork="lxx_en" refSystem="Bible.KJV">
>	    <title>Septuagint</title>
>	    <language>en</language>
>	  </work>

That certainly works; you point to the work and the work points to 
the reference system. Except that:

If a work supports multiple reference systems, you'd have to 
redeclare the work for each

If you want to use a reference system the work doesn't support 
(because you know or are willing to risk that a mapping exists), 
you'd have no way to do it.

I thought that's why we had the refsys allowed in () after the work 
in any reference.....

>
>allows you to later say:
>
><reference osisRef="lxx_en:Psalm.20"> without any loss of 
>information, correct? Recall that while we may see this as 
>different, that difference is only visual and not informational. I 
>could parse the attribute string in your original example and by 
>some rule deduce that the resource was using the KJV reference 
>system or a system could process the reference to the information in 
><work> and discover the same thing. I think the later is easier to 
>write, although harder for a person to resolve efficiently.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Patrick
>
>>
>>Is this right?
>>DO I also need to declare Bible.KJV in case 3?
>>If we aren't always "declaring" ref system, how do we tell
>>a ref system name from a work identifier?
>>
>>-Harry
>>
>
>--
>Patrick Durusau
>Director of Research and Development
>Society of Biblical Literature
>pdurusau@emory.edu


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