[sword-devel] GenBook osisID and URIs

[Manfred Bergmann]

Hi.

MacSword uses the following schema for URLs:

sword://[<FilterOption[&<FilterOption]@]<ModuleShortName>/<Key|KeyRange>

This is how I found it.
I'm open to implement a standard if this has been besided.


Manfred



Am 13.05.2008 um 17:46 schrieb DM Smith:

> We've got a discussion going on jsword-devel regarding how to  
> represent
> custom URLs for sword that will work in a browser. I know GnomeSword  
> and
> MacSword have such a facility.
>
> I'd like to get some input here that I can reply with to jsword-devel.
>
> I seemed to recall that the general consensus is that we should use
> sword:// as the protocol, but I am seeking advice on what should  
> follow,
> especially for GenBooks.
>
> IIRC, what we were thinking was that it should be
> protocol://osisRef(,osisRef)*
>
> But that poses problems when one wants to specify the work because the
> definition of a URI doesn't allow : for this use.
> e.g. sword://KJV:Gen.1.1-Gen.1.3,KJV:Gen.2.9
>
> OSIS allows the workID to contain letters, digits and the _ and  
> osisIDs
> have parts separated by '.', where the parts can contain anything  
> except
> spaces.
>
> So the question is what to substitute for the ':' ?
> I'm thinking of (workID) as in sword://(KJV)Gen.1.1-Gen.1.3,(KJV):Gen.2.2
>
> And how would one specify, a parallel request?
>
> I'm thinking of the following:
> protocol://(workID(,workID)*)?osisRef(,(workID(,workID)*)?osisRef)*
> e.g. sword://(KJV,ESV)Gen.1.1-Gen.1.3,(KJV,ESV):Gen.2.2
>
> The next part of the question relates to the proper representation  
> of a
> GenBook key as an osisID.
>
> If we understand '.' as OSIS's hierarchical separator, e.g. Gen.1.1 is
> Book -> Chapter -> Verse, then a GenBook with a hierarchy to a node  
> of A
> -> B -> C would be "A.B.C"
> The problem is that in a GenBook, the key is generally a title, with
> spaces and possibly periods. I was thinking a simple substitution of _
> for spaces and something else, perhaps '/' for periods.
> But _ and / are valid in a osisID.
>
> Here is an example from Josephus (with '.' added for purposes of this
> discussion)
> workID = Josephus
>
> The War of The Jews. -> Book 1. -> Chapter 2. -> Section 3.
>
> Possible osisID:
> Josephus:The_War_of_the_Jews/.Book_1/.Chapter_2/.Section_3/
>
> While osisIDs use '.' as a path separator, URIs use '/'. So would one
> change do the swap of '.' and '/' when representing the osisID as a  
> URI?
> e.g.
> (Josephus)The_War_of_the_Jews./Book_1./Chapter_2./Section_3.
>
> And if we do that what about Bible references, would they become
> sword://(KJV)Gen/1/1 ? (I don't think that makes sense)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> In Him,
>    DM
>
>
>
>
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