[sword-devel] sword-devel Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12

[Yiguang Hu]

If you have to think of other repository than sword
module, how about xindice. It stores XML directly and
you can access the data using XPATH. Sure xindice is
young also.

http://xml.apache.org/xindice/

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>    1. Re: modules to relational database (Gabriel M.
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> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:27:57 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <gabriel at teuton.org>
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] modules to relational
> database
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> > You can split up any XML document at its nodes
> like <osisID>, <div> etc.
> > into
> > rows of a database that also holds the rendering
> context for each of these
> > nodes, and also information about the tree
> structure of the xml document
> > (parent-children etc.). How deep you want to split
> it beyond osisID
> > depends
> > on what you want to do.
> 
> >From what I've seen, a lot (maybe most) of the
> "serious" bible texts have
> structured their documents like you would a book,
> and then littered it
> with "milestones" to mark where chapters and verses
> begin.  E.g.
> 
> <!-- my aplologies for butchering ThML -->
> <p>
>   <ScripRef verse='Gen 1:1' />In the beginning, God
> created
>   the heavens and the earth.  <ScripRef verse='Gen
> 1:2' />
>   And the earth was shapeless and void...
> </p>
> 
> On the one hand, you can store the XML document in a
> relational database
> as an XML document... preserving each tag, location,
> attributes, etc.  On
> the other hand, I would expect someone (like me or
> the OP) to try and
> divide things up by Book/Chapter/Verse:
> 
>
+------+----+-------+---------------------------------------+
> | Book | Ch | Verse | Text                          
>        |
>
+------+----+-------+---------------------------------------+
> | Gen  | 1  |   1   | In the beginning, God created
> the     |
> |      |    |       | heavens and the earth.        
>        |
>
+------+----+-------+---------------------------------------+
> | Gen  | 1  |   2   | And the earth was shapeless
> and       |
> |      |    |       | void...                       
>        |
>
+------+----+-------+---------------------------------------+
> 
> To be clear on what I'm getting at... IMHO, I just
> don't think there's a
> large advantage to converting a module to a RDMS. 
> If you preserve the
> original document (OSIS, ThML, etc.)... why not just
> leave it in OSIS,
> ThML, etc.?  If you redo the schema to the RDMS, I
> think you'll end up
> with a lot of headaches that the XML/SGML schemas
> solve well.  I can be
> convinced otherwise (after all, I really do love
> RDMS's)... but this is
> how I see it.
> 
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