[sword-devel] ESV Bug: cross reference problem

[DM Smith]

On May 6, 2006, at 8:13 AM, DM Smith wrote:

> Deut 22.22 has two cross references. The first one works, the  
> second one does not.
>
> I've spent some time studying the verse content and also some other  
> verses containing <note type="crossReference">...</note>
>
> It appears that the assumption is that crossReference (xref, for  
> short) notes only contain a list of <reference> elements. The web  
> tool takes each of these, gets the verse and presents it in a popup  
> div. All other text in the note is ignored.
>
> However, this assumption is not valid. In the case of ESV, most  
> xref notes are surrounded by [ ... ] and contain a semi-colon  
> separated list of references. However some also contain additional  
> text and some contain only text.
>
> In the case of the second note, it contains only text and no  
> <reference> elements.

I've verified that this is a problem with the latest release  
candidate for BibleCS.

>
> There is another problem with the encoding of some xref notes, e.g.  
> Deut 22.5. A good number of them end with ]0x19. That is a closing  
> bracket followed by Unicode 0x19. This character is stripped out by  
> this front end. Not sure how other front-ends handle it.

BibleCS handles xrefs differently than the Web Tool. It shows the  
content. The "out of band" characters show as blocks.

>
> I found a problem with the web tool using safari. It may just be my  
> newness to the Mac. I cannot figure out how to dismiss an xref  
> popup div.