[osis-core] Eliminate quote and blockQuote as elements and put back quote milestones.

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Just as a sanity check, can you follow up on my suggestion that unless 
element content is required that I can write the quote element either as:

<q id="myfirstquote">Comments about some projects</q>

or

<q id="myfirstquote"/>comments about some projects<q id="endfirstquote"/>

My reading of the XML standard indicates both are acceptable, provided 
there is no required content for the element.

Thanks!

Patrick

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

>If the proposal for a "role" to contain "actual" scripture text is
>accepted most of the overlapping hierarchies are simply handled.   (The
>proposal will eliminate the high occurrence of overlapping between
><verse> and <lineGroup>/<line> and <list>/<item> when <lineGroup>/<line>
>and <list>/<item> are used.)
>
>Quotes and block quotes seem to OFTEN overlap with other hierarchies.
>If they alone were represented as milestones the occurrence of
>overlapping hierarchies would be largely limited to a few occurrences of
>paragraphs and verses overlapping (71 cases of paragraphs and verses
>overlapping in the TEV version of Matthew out of a total of 461
>paragraphs or 15% of paragraphs).  
>
>The original argument of eliminating milestones to handle overlapping
>hierarchies was because the occurrence was infrequent.  
>
>If the occurrence is frequent more than 50% then it would seem the
>milestone approach would be more appropriate.  The other positive factor
>for quotes is that the handling of them as milestones is simpler that
>with other milestone types.  If an attribute for quote level and one for
>quote type were added to <qStart> and <qEnd> elements then it would be
>fairly simple to look forward and backward for the matching quote and to
>determine what to do when rendering based on the level and type
>attribute alone.  (The type attribute would eliminate the need for both
>blockQuote and q.  Still waiting on clarification on the difference
>between those two.)
>
>However, I think we should EITHER milestones OR elements for quote and
>blockQuote. 
>
>I think that quotes as milestones will make encoding easier as well.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Todd
>

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