[sword-devel] RawVerse::RemoveMostTagsAndExtraWhiteSpace available

[Lynn Allan]

In an earlier post, I mentioned the C function
void RemoveMostTagsAndExtraWhiteSpace(char* buf)

I've uploaded a prototype of LcdBible that uses the "experimental"
CanonVersifier class. This class and a cut-down RawVerse are the only
sword-api classes needed for a "plug-in subset" that can access verses from
./modules/texts/rawtext.  The specifics can be looked at:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lcdbible/LcdBible_src_0_01c.zip

The above contains
void RawVerse::RemoveMostTagsAndExtraWhiteSpace(char* buf)

(It can be thought of as an enhanced RawVerse::PrepText)

It uses 4 "states" to check if it is:
* within a simple "removable tag",
* within a <RF>pseudo-comment<Rf>
* within a <scripRef>some references</scripRef>
* actual Bible text (also strips CrLf, leading spaces, multiple spaces,
tabs, other non-printing chars)

It seems to work 100% for the 8 uncompressed and compressed Bible texts I've
used it with. (KJV, LITV, ISV, WEB, BBE, MKJV, GodsWord, BWE), but YMMV.  I
haven't used it with commentaries, dictionaries, etc.

my 2 alt-155,
Lynn Allan


From: Paul Julian Gould <pauljulian@adelphia.net>
To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Re: Some questions re: a locked module
(parsing/removing embedded tags without sword-api)
Reply-To: sword-devel@crosswire.org

Lynn Allan wrote:

>>>Sure will make life a lot less painful, I guarantee, as I've been
>>>sitting here trying to write a parsing routiine to get rid of the
>>>e-Sword-specific formatting codes in that humongous 64MB Access file.
>>>
>>>
>
>As an alternative to the thorough, but not-for-the-faint-hearted parsing
>that the Sword-Api is capable of, I am aware of a 77 line C routine that
>seems to remove 99.44% of the non-standard tags that are embedded in
rawtext
>and ztext Bible modules. (Note, I haven't used it on commentaries,
>dictionaries, etc.)
>
>void RemoveMostTagsAndExtraWhiteSpace(char* buf)
>
>If the author of the routine is willing to waive copyright, and you think
it
>might be worth looking at, I can make it available at:
>http://inverse.sourceforge.net/prototypes
>
>my 2 alt-155
>
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I'd love to see it... my C skills are pretty rusty, but I can read
someone else's code and modify it for my uses.

Sounds useful, indeed!

God Bless,

Paul