[sword-devel] Trying to make my first module

[Chris Little]

As the Module Making guide says (and the utility name implies), xml2gbs is
for GenBook modules.  You're probably generating a valid GenBook, but your
.conf file is trying to access a Bible, with effect being that it cannot
find it.

The vaguely-named osis2mod is what you'll need to convert OSIS documents 
into Sword Bibles.

--Chris

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Meneely wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've tried this several times (on and off!) over several months, and have yet 
> to produce a module which works.  I've got the "Module Making" guide printed 
> in front of me, I've tried to make things as simple as possible, and I'm 
> failing.
> 
> I'm trying to convert OSIS into a text module.  After I install and start 
> Sword (Windows, although all my utilities are run in RH9) I see a tab for my 
> trial version, but there's no text in it.
> 
> For today's try I used the Sample OSIS Document from page 4 of the "Getting 
> Started with OSIS" guide (pasted in below) and a simple conf file (also 
> pasted in below).  On my Red Hat box I ran xml2gbs -f0 osisdemo.xml osisdemo
> I copied my osisdemo.conf file to the same mods.d folder used by pre-created 
> modules and the produce of xml2gbs (osisdemo.bdt, dat, and idx) to 
> modules\texts\rawtext\osisdemo.
> 
> Sword shows me a blank for 1 John 1.
> 
> Help, anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> My osisdemo.conf file:
> [OSISDemo]
> DataPath=./modules/texts/rawtext/osisdemo/
> ModDrv=RawText
> SourceType=OSIS
> Version=1.0
> History_1.0=first attempt
> Category=Sample texts
> Lang=en
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Description=TKM OSIS Attempt
> About=This is an attempt to import something, anything, into Sword
> LCSH=Bible. English.
> DistributionLicense=Public Domain
> TextSource=TKMeneely
> 
> My osisdemo.xml file:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <osis xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> 	xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation
> 	="http://www.bibletechnologies.net/osisCore.1.1.1.xsd">
> 	<osisText osisIDWork="CEV" osisRefWork="Bible" lang="en">
> 		<header>
> 			<work osisWork="CEV">
> 				<title>Contemporary English Version</title>
>         <identifier type="ISBN">1585160555</identifier>
>         <rights type="copyright">Copyright 1995, 2003
>         American Bible Society</rights>
>         <refSystem>Bible</refSystem>
>         <scope osisRef="John.1.1"/>
> 			</work>
> 			<work osisWork="Bible">
> 				<refSystem>Bible</refSystem>
> 			</work>
> 		</header>
> 		<div type="book" osisID="John">
> 			<title>John</title>
> 			<chapter osisID="John.1">
> 				<title>Chapter 1</title>
> 				<v osisID="John.1.1">In the beginning was the
> 					one who is called the Word. The Word was with
> 					God and was truly God.</v>
> 			</chapter>
> 		</div>
> 	</osisText>
> </osis>
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