[osis-core] open issues

[Steve DeRose]

At 01:30 PM -0700 06/05/02, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>Not sure if anyone knows or cares, but most all of my issues brought 
>up in my last messages are still on the table:
>
>archive, if anyone needs the old messages:
>
>http://www.bibletechnologieswg.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/OSIS-CORE%40BIBLETECHNOLOGIESWG.ORG/archives/
>
>Not wanting to be a wrench in the works, but I still feel our gears 
>are turning fast down a wrong path.
>
>Specifically: segmentation isn't elegant and we can't anticipate all 
>overlapping cases.  Try a few verses from a Prophetic text (e.g. Ez 
>39:1-) e.g (not from Ez).
>
>1. Then God said, "Say to my people: 'Thus says the LORD, "Repent! 
>2. You backsliding markup authors."
>	How often have I desired to give you a good markup. 3. But 
>you were unwilling.

Nice paraphrase... That is an ugly one, allright.

>
>
>Try to add phrase level annotation, critical markup and other tags 
>to that and you have no hope of a human understanding or getting it 
>right, muchless our schema to allow such things.  Anything can be 
>forced to work.  I just don't see why our milestone approach wasn't 
>about 3000x more elegant.
>
>Or even my unanswered suggestion of a having all tags allowed to be 
>used 2 ways with a global 'milestone' attribute (kindof like Todd is 
>suggesting with roles, but not exactly).
>
>global attributes mStart and mEnd
>
>That would allow 2 types of markup.  All tags to either be used as:
>
>XML Container:
><verse ID="Gen.1.1">In the beginning</verse>
>
>or
>
>XML Milestone / Logical Container
><verse ID="Gen.1.1" mStart="uniqueID1" />In the beginning<verse 
>mEnd="uniqueID1" />

I don't quite get this part....



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Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
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