[sword-devel] 1.5.8 bugs

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Is it possible to do cross-platform compiles for Windows from the 
Crosswire server, which is Linux?

Krzysztof Bialas wrote:

> Well, that reminds me of one feature I really miss in Sword project 
> (that is already present in BibleDesktop) - the nightly builds (for 
> Sword AND sword tools).
> In my personal opinion that will help those  people developing modules 
> to test the newest corrections and provide proper feedback on found 
> errors providing a bit tighter developement cycle.
>
> Greetings,
> Chris(topher) B.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Little" 
> <chrislit at crosswire.org>
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] 1.5.8 bugs
>
>
>> 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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