[sword-devel] Re: WEB has missing verses

[Michael Paul Johnson]

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At 03:50 21-01-04, Chris Little wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Michael Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> The xml:lang attribute is only supported for English texts, right 
>> now, 
>> since most of the languages I'm interested in have no two-letter 
>> codes. (There are too many of them. You can't represent over 6,000 
>> languages with two letters.)
>
>I'm not sure where you got the idea that xml:lang only holds an ISO 
>639-1
>(or some other two-letter) value, but the actual standard can easily 
>refer
>to any human language.  xml:lang's contents are defined by RFC 
>1766/3066.  
>By the former, ISO 639-1, IANA, and x- codes are valid.  The latter 
>adds
>ISO 639-2 codes.  I think OSIS preference (though this isn't in 
>writing
>yet) is to use ISO 639-1, ISO 639-2, IANA, then x- codes, according 
>to
>what is available for a given language, in that order of preference.  
>SIL/Ethnologue codes should be of the form x-SIL-<code>.  LINGUIST 
>List
>codes should be of the form x-LINGUIST-<code>.  That covers all human
>languages, delegating code assignment to the proper organizations 
>(SIL &
>LINGUIST), as well as permitting locale-specific dialects and other 
>subtags, according to RFC 1766/3066 conventions.  And if additional 
>codes 
>are needed, x- codes without the SIL or LINGUIST subtag can be used.

OK. I guess I just didn't know because it wasn't documented, and I 
didn't take the time to reverse-engineer the regular expression on the 
validation in the schema. I'll use x-SIL-+ the Ethnologue code in the 
next update. That would solve one of two problems that made the Tok 
Pisin Bible fail validation with the current OSIS 2.0.1 schema. The 
other is the lack of verse bridge annotation. For lack of a standard 
way to do it, I encoded osisID attributes as if they were osisRef 
attributes, allowing ranges, like
<verse sID="Gen.1.6-Gen.1.7" osisID="Gen.1.6-Gen.1.7" />Bihain God i 
tok olsem, “Wanpela banis i mas kamap bilong banisim wara, bai wara 
i stap long tupela hap.” Orait dispela banis i
kamap. God i mekim dispela banis i kamap bilong banisim wara antap na 
wara daunbilo.
<verse eID="Gen.1.6-Gen.1.7" />

>> Footnote start anchors use generic milestone markers. This may 
>> change 
>> if OSIS starts really supporting these. This really isn't a 
>> violation 
>> of the OSIS 2.0 spec, but if you use this feature beware that it 
>> may 
>> change.
>
>Has this been suggested to OSIS yet?

It was yesterday. :-)

>> Hebrew Psalm book titles are rendered as text (poetry <l> or prose 
>> <p> 
>> elements) rather than <title> elements, because <title> elements 
>> couldn't handle the appropriate "italics" markup for KJV "added" 
>> words 
>> in the current OSIS 2.0.1 schema.
>
>I'll point that out at the next meeting.

Thanks.
May God bless you and the entire Crosswire team.

Michael

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