[osis-core] annotateRef: Question on whitespace

[Todd Tillinghast]

> >
> >Any comments on Todd's solution for second (or later 
> occurrences of a 
> >word?
> >
> >Looks like an easy solution to me.
> >
> >Hope everyone is having a great day!
> 
> Funny, that's what we did in the comparable place in TEI extended 
> pointers, and in XPointer at some stage.
> It's clunky, but certainly easy to explain and to implement.
> 
> I kind of dislike the extra []: <reference 
> osisRef="X.1.1@s[trouble][2]"/>
> 
> What would y'all think of <reference osisRef="X.1.1@s[trouble,2]"/>, 
> where we rule out whatever punctuation we use? I know, that has it's 
> own problem of looking like a match that it's not.... I can live with 
> the extra brackets.

I like having a the text between [ and ] be the text to match on.

> 
> I do feel strongly, though, that we shouldn't make support for them 
> optional. I'd rather make support for grains optional in its 
> entirety, I think it would be less confusing. Of course, any 
> optionality leads to non-interoperability......
> 

I think support of grains should not be optional.  I do think be should
allow the "match number" to default to one.

I also considered  
<reference osisRef="X.1.1@s2[trouble]"/>
<reference osisRef="X.1.1@s[trouble]2"/>
<reference osisRef="X.1.1@s.2[trouble]"/>
<reference osisRef="X.1.1@s[trouble].2"/>

But I still prefer 
<reference osisRef="X.1.1@s[trouble][2]"/>

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Todd