[sword-devel] 1.5.8 bugs

[Chris Little]

I should point out that the mod2osis in SVN may or may not work 
correctly at the moment. Last time I tried it, it was broken, but some 
commits have occurred since then.

--Chris

Chris Little wrote:
> You're using the wrong tool. You need to use osis2mod. osis2mod is for 
> Bibles and expects Bible structures. xml2gbs is for free form books that 
> will go to our GenBook driver and it expects different types of 
> structures. You can force a Bible through xml2gbs and it will work 
> correctly, but only if you encode it like a free form book (which would 
> violate best practices).
> 
> I don't plan to rewrite xml2gbs and I doubt Troy plans to rewrite 
> osis2mod to use a full DOM parser. In the end, data have to be imported 
> to Sword format, which means we have to handle them ourselves 
> eventually. Without any specific examples, the best I can say is simply 
> that I think we can manage without the added trouble of an external parser.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> Justus Piater wrote:
> 
>> "Krzysztof Bialas" <krzbia at ctm.gdynia.pl> wrote on Sun, 20 Mar 2005 
>> 15:01:02 +0100:
>>
>>
>>> I've invested quite some time into developing an example osis file
>>> showing off the problems with osis2mod/Sword for windows 1.5.8pre3
>>> that are (in my opinion) 1.5.8 blockers. These are stated in the
>>> forum message
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=274.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have converted another Bible to OSIS 2.0.1 format, and xml2gbs
>> (1.5.7 Linux) crashes half-way through. If I take only parts of the
>> Bible, it completes, but all verses are empty.
>>
>> After running it in the debugger and looking at the source, it seems
>> that the problem is due to unhandled elements or unanticipated ways of
>> nesting elements.
>>
>> At this point I stopped investigating because I don't think there's
>> any hope of ever parsing OSIS XML correctly using an ad-hoc parser;
>> OSIS is way too complex and very flexible. A clean solution would
>> require that xml2gbs be rewritten to employ an external XML library
>> (e.g., libxml2 from http://xmlsoft.org/).
>>
>> It is not up to me to judge whether this blocks 1.5.8.
>>
>> Justus
>>
> 
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