[osis-core] Is this ready for OSIS 1.1? Overlapping heirarchies
Harry Plantinga
osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:28:38 -0400
> >There seems to be little help for multiple overlapping heirarchies.
> >
> If you check the message that arrived while you were dodging forest
> fires you will find messages essentially concedeing that we don't have
> a good solution for overlap but that we will address that issue again in
> OSIS 2.0.
We essentially decided to give the <seg> approach (split container elements
that are linked together) a try in OSIS 1.1, to see if it's workable. We'll
revisit the problem with OSIS2.0. This is one of the major areas of
Steve's research, if I remember prior messages correctly.
One ad-hoc way of reducing overlap problems that was suggested
(not decided upon as far as I know) was to have a milestone-like
option for the <q> element, e.g.
<q mStart="id1" /> ... <q mEnd="ID1" />
Then event-oriented software could still treat the quote as a container,
while the majority of the problems with multiple-hierarchy-overlap
thus far identified would be elimintated.
-Harry