[sword-devel] How do I encode osisRefs to lexicons?

[DM Smith]

I am wondering the same thing as I work on Naves. Chris' response to me was:
"The article title itself should be used for osisIDs as well as osisRefs 
to the entries with those osisIDs."
So I take it that your example is what he meant.

The osisRef can have an optional prefix followed by a colon. In your 
example it is MyLexName. If it is not present the OSIS manual says that 
it refers to the same work. So <reference osisRef="Eve">See 
Eve</reference> is proper.

I understand that this also means that if we have references to 
something outside of the work that it needs to have the prefix as in
<reference osisRef="Bible:Gen.1.1">See Genesis 1:1</reference>

Also, I am under the impression that in a proper OSIS document that 
every osisRef refers to something that is marked up with an osisID. In 
the case of new OSIS Bible modules the <verse> tag is present, but older 
ones it is implicit.

Is this correct?

Joachim Ansorg wrote:

>Hi all,
>I have to create a lexicon which contains links to it's own entries.
>E.g. the text of "Adam" contains a ref to "Eve".
>At the moment I did this with 	
>	<reference osisRef="MyLexName:Eve">See Eve</reference>
>
>Is this good or bad style? Is this even valid? What is the right way to do 
>this.
>
>An answer would be helpful, since the module is quote important.
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Joachim
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