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

[Bill Burton]

Hello,

It looks like Xindice doesn't work as well with documents up to or over 5
MB.  I would imagine uncompressed OSIS Bible text would be at least that
large.  Also, I wonder how well XPath would work very well with the OSIS
format.

-Bill

On 11/7/06, Martin Gruner <mg.pub at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> 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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> > > Message: 1
> > > 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"
> > >     <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
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> > <1539.65.197.90.190.1162924077.squirrel at www.teuton.org>
> >
> > > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
> > >
> > > > 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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