[osis-core] canonical="true"

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick,

I agree with your interpretation.  Case aside any suggestion I made to
tie canonical to <work> or refSystem.

Todd

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> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
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> Subject: [osis-core] canonical="true"
> 
> Todd,
> 
> The canonical attribute on osisText defaults to "true." All I take
that
> to mean is that the text in osisText is the text that is being
encoded.
> That sounds dumb doesn't it? ;-)
> 
> In other words, if I were encoding a translation of Dante for example,
> the material in the <lg> and <l> elements are part of the translation
of
> Dante and the stuff in <note> elements, is material I added.
> 
> It is a way to separate out the "main" text from anything that has
been
> added to it for pointing purposes.
> 
> Canonical, does not, at least to me, imply anything about the nature
of
> the text itself.
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Hope you are having a great day!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> --
> Patrick Durusau
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> Society of Biblical Literature
> Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
> Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
> Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
> 
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