[osis-core] osisWorkType

[Patrick Durusau]

Chris,

Thanks for the corrections!

Help me here a little: NRSVA = ???

BTW, will correct the NA27 and use the list from MAT.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Chris Little wrote:
> 
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> 
> None of these standard reference schemes can be used for the vast 
> majority of texts we would encode.
> 
>> <p>
>>     r-NA27 -- as used in most English Bibles, with slight variations.
>> </p>
> 
> 
> I'm sure this is just an oversight, but this should be revised.  NA27 is 
> only useful for NT-only texts.
> 
>> <p>
>>     r-Hebrew -- Hebrew tradition varies in several respects, the best
>> known being that it number the proscriptions above Psalms as verse 1,
>> and the beginning of the psalm proper as verse 2.
>> </p>
> 
> 
> This should probably be changed to MT or BHS (something more specific).
> 
> BFBS MAT prepared documents on the issue of reference systems for OSIS, 
> which can be seen at http://www.bfbs.org.uk/osis/versification.htm. They 
> recommended MT, LXX, Vulg, KJV, and Synodal.  We may want to add NRSVA 
> to the list since it is our default versification scheme.
> 
>> Note that this is inconsistent with the current regex for work type:
>>
>> <xs:simpleType name="osisWorkType">
>>         <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
>>             <xs:pattern 
>> value="((\p{L}|\p{N}|_)+)((\.(\p{L}|\p{N}|_)+)*)?"/>
>>         </xs:restriction>
>> </xs:simpleType>
>>
>> And also note that osisText currently has the following attribute:
>>
>> <xs:attribute name="osisRefWork" type="osisWorkType" use="optional" 
>> default="Bible"/>
>>
>> Steve has suggested either just reserving them in the manual or 
>> possibly changing the regex to force the "x-" before user defined works.
>>
>> While I am sympathetic to the convention of using the "x-" for user 
>> defined works, it would break backwards compatibility.
>>
>> Any thoughts on texts that would break if this is enforced?
>>
>> Can always just say these names are reserved and let it go at that. 
>> (without the leading "r-" of course)
> 
> 
> Wouldn't requiring x- for all user defined works break every existing 
> document?
> 
> I don't see changing the regex like this as advantageous since, in the 
> majority of instances where it is used, it will not hold one of the 
> reference system values we enumerate.  I think simply defining them as 
> standard reference system values in the manual is a good idea.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> 
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
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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