[osis-core] refSystem syntax and comments

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Just to go on the record with this...


> The user is 
> responsible for indicating a citation that is meaningful in terms of the 
> reference system of the work that is being used in the work element.

I disagree with this.

I believe we have always said that we with to support 2 use cases:

1) Non-scholar Joe, who grew up knowing his Bible and writing sermons, 
but has no clue that there are different reference systems other than 
KJV.  He write a sermon and sends it to his friend in France and uses: 
NIV.fr:Ps.30.16  He has no clue that French reference system is 
different, and has declared his own default refSystem for his sermon to 
be Bible.KJV

I'm not saying we want to describe mapping tables or anything right now; 
ONLY, that we need to allow an auther to represent (what one time was) 
NIV.fr(Bible.KJV):Ps.30.16


2) Scholar Joel, who is bilingual and absolutely knows about the 
difference in reference systems and really wants to have all of his 
osisRef's refer to default refSystem in which the work is marked up.


So, I think we have 2 TYPES of a default that should be available to the 
author:

a) absolute (Bible.KJV)
b) relative (workDefault)


	Thoughts?

		-Troy.



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> 
> I take this to mean that the material in front of the ":" in an osisID 
> or osisRef is just a reference to the work element in the header and 
> does not mean anything beyond that pointing.
> 
> The work element has a required attribute, also called osisWork, which I 
> have contemplated changing but since that is the value that should 
> replace Bible in osisWork in osisText, it probably is not too confusing 
> to leave the same.
> 
> <xs:attribute name="osisWork" type="osisWorkType" use="required"/>
> 
> I think Todd (he will post if disagrees) is now convinced that at least 
> by late today or Monday that we cannot solve the generic mapping problem 
> of references and therefore should not link our IDs or Refs to a 
> particular reference system, at least as far as their syntax. In other 
> words, I could declare a French bible to be the NIV translations and 
> note in <refSystem> that it uses the KVJ reference system, but the 
> actual ID that I use is just a reference to that work element and does 
> not imply any system abilities with regard to the reference system. That 
> a citation makes sense with reference to a particular work is solely the 
> responsibility of the user.
> 
> 
> Patrick
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