[osis-core] Defaulting (repetition)

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings!

I posted a note back in February on a more general defaulting mechanism 
that did not see much play on the list. (Todd responded but then Todd 
always does. ;-) This time with a question and not an objection so it 
was different in that regard.)

The proposal is as follows:

Add to <header> the following element (repeatable without limit, except 
that two such elements cannot conflict):

<setDefault>

Has two attributes:

path: which must be of the form: //GI at attributeName

and

prefix: value must be found on a work element in the current document as 
the value of osisWork attribute.

This will allow all the current defaulting plus defaulting on lemmas, 
morphology, etc., and any other that comes up in the future without 
further intervention on our part.

Current mechanisms will persist but if both apply, the newer mechanism 
takes precedence.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau at sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!