[sword-devel] ThML and OSIS references

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Adrian,
	I can only speak concerning OSIS, but authoritative osisRef 
abbreviations can be found here:

http://www.bibletechnologieswg.org/osis/specs/

Top Section, last entry: Bible Book Names

This means that you would use these (roman/latin script) abbreviations 
in the osisRef attribute, but would have anything you would like in the 
text node of the reference, e.g.

<reference osisRef="John.3.16">THAI UTF8 TEXT HERE</reference>

Hope that makes sense,

		-Troy.

PS.  Just so Chris doesn't jump all over me... There has been 'talk' 
about providing a way to translate the meta information (tag names, 
attribute name, etc.) into other languages (would use UTF8).  If this 
ever happened, than it would follow that these abbreviations would also 
likely be candidates for translation.  I think the whole idea is silly 
:), but hey, it may happen anyway! :)



Adrian Korten wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> I have a question about the markup for references within a text to 
> another bible verse with either ThML or OSIS. The short tutorial has a 
> note as described below.
> 
> "OSIS includes a reference element for this purpose, and for our 
> example, an instance may look something like:
> Please see <reference osisRef="Jas.1.19">James 1:19</reference>"
> 
> Should the osisRef (or ThML equivalent) field use the KJV English book 
> abbreviations? Or should it use the original language book 
> abbreviations? Should they be encoded as UTF-8 characters?
> 
> ak
> 
> 
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