[osis-core] Use of line and verse.

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Testing my understanding, not necessarily a proposal: ;-)

So what you are proposing is that lineGroup contain verses and that 
verses contain lines? (Assuming verses are optional in lineGroup since 
in non-Bible texts I may well want to reproduce a lineGroup with lines, 
for poetic texts that don't have the verse structure.) Verses would have 
the same content model as elsewhere but with the addition of lines? Or 
would you suggest adding lines to verses more generally? (The last 
suggestion might lead to typographic abuse of lines for formatting 
purposes. )

May still have cases where lines cross verses but that seems unlikely.

Comments? (If I am understanding the proposal correctly, I think I like it.)

Patrick

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

>It seem that <line> and <verse> overlap VERY frequently.  This is not some
>strange case but more the norm than the exception.
>
>This is what is currently allowed.
><lineGroup>
>	<line><verse verseID="Book.1.1b" prev="Book.1.1a"
>next="Book.1.1c">.....</verse></line>
>	<line><verse verseID="Book.1.1c" prev="Book.1.1b">.....</verse><verse
>verseID "Book.1.2">...</verse></line>
>	<line><verse verseID="Book.1.3" next="Book.1.3b">.....</verse></line>
>	<line><verse verseID="Book.1.3b" prev="Book.1.3"
>next="Book.1.3c">.....</verse></line>
>	<line><verse verseID="Book.1.3c" prev="Book.1.3b">.....</verse></line>
></lineGroup>
>
>It would seem that there will always be at least one <verse> element in EACH
><line> elemtn  because a verse will always be partially or completely
>contained within a line.
>
>The only exception would be if the entire <lineGroup> where in a SINGLE
>verse.  This seems unlikely.
>
>The following is also a good possibility: (There don't seem to be many cases
>where a line contains parts of two verses.  Correct me if I wrong on this
>one.)
><lineGroup lineGroupID=Book.1.1b>
>	<verse verseID="Book.1.1b" prev="Book.1.1a">
>		<line>...</line>
>		<line lineID="Book.1.1a" next="Book.1.1b">...</line>
>	</verse>
>	<verse verseID "Book.1.2">
>		<line lineID="Book.1.1b" prev="Book.1.1a>...</line>
>	</verse>
>	<verse verseID "Book.1.3">
>		<line>...</line>
>		<line>...</line>
>		<line>...</line>
>	</verse>
></lineGroup>
>This option would require that verse contain line which should only be
>possible if the verse is contained by a lineGroup.
>
>
>It seems UGLY to encode a lineGroup/line combination using our current
>schema and alot of the poetry is largely lineGroup/line elements.
>
>Todd
>

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu