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

[Martin Gruner]

This sounds very interesting. Is there something similar for C++?

mg

Am Dienstag, 7. November 2006 20:24 schrieb 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.
> > Beddingfield)
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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
> > To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum"
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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.
> >
> >
> > --
> >                G a b r i e l   M   B e d d i n g f i
> > e l d
> >
> >
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