[sword-devel] Scripture Reference Tagging Tool

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

Thanks Chris. I just toyed around with vs2osisref. Very cool. Its a good
start. I tried all sorts of abbreviations and verse spans and it correctly
interpreted all but the most obscure non-standard ones I threw at it. Now if
we could just feed it a whole text file and have it loop through looking for
everything it recognized and generate a logfile so you could eyeball the
thing for mistakes, that would rock. I need to learn Perl.

by grace alone,

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org





----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Little" <chrislit@crosswire.org>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Scripture Reference Tagging Tool


> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
>
> > Is there a scripture reference tagging tool? It seems I remember Chris
> > mentioning one once. What I mean is a tool that would suck up an input
file,
> > recognize verse reference strings like "John 3:16" and wrap some sort of
> > ThML/OSIS/whatever markup around it.
>
> Not currently.  There are two parts to the problem:
>
> First is recognizing the reference.  This is generally very difficult
> because of the hundreds of ways you can identify a passage, plus the
> myriad book abbreviations/names that can be used, plus the different
> possibilities for ranges/lists of verses.  I wrote something in Perl to do
> this for the Catholic Encyclopedia a while back, but haven't been able to
> locate it.  It was extremely specific to that text anyway.  Perl seems
> like the best way handle recognizing references because of its regular
> expression support.
>
> Second, you need to convert the reference to OSIS.  For simple references
> this is pretty simple, but anything with dis-contiguous ranges/lists will
> require that you decide where the parts are located in the reference and
> mark them.  There's a vs2osisref utility in the utilities directory that
> you may use to generate the actual OSIS tags, but it's a long way from a
> complete solution.
>
> This would be a good area for someone looking to have a little project to
> work in. :)  If the Perl/regex part could be converted to C, that would be
> even better.
>
> --Chris
>
>
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