[sword-devel] osis2mod linking bug

[Greg Hellings]

DM,

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:05 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to solve an osis2mod linking bug that was exposed by several
> beta modules.
>
> Here is the scenario:
> <verse osisID="XXX.1.29 XXX.1.30 XXX.1.31">Text for the last three
> verses of XXX, chapter 1 in the KJV versification</verse>
> <verse osisID="XXX.1.32 XXX.1.33">Text for additional verses in the XXX,
> chapter 1 in the non-KJV versification</verse>
>
> 1) osis2mod links 1.30 and 1.31 by writing out the start and offset of
> the data for 1.29. That means that 1.29 has to be written first. In the
> index file the result is that all three entries have the same start and
> offset. So far so good, if there weren't a bug that writes the links
> first and then the data, resulting in start/offset of 0/0 for the links.
> But I've already figured out how to fix that bug.
>
> 2) Now a non-KJV verse is found and osis2mod appends it to the last
> verse of the chapter according to the KJV versification. So the entry
> for XXX.1.31 is found, the raw text is gotten and it is appended and
> this augmented text is written to the data file, at the end of the file.
> Finally the index entry for XXX.1.31 is updated.
>
> The problem is that 1.29 and 1.30 are not updated, they still point to
> the "1.29-1.31" text and now 1.31 points to the "1.29-1.33" text.
>
> 3) The other problem is with 1.33, it is noticed that it is out of
> bounds and is changed to 1.31 and then it is linked to 1.32, which does
> not exist and thus 1.31 is re-written to 0/0.
>
> I'm looking for a way to solve these problems. Here is what I am
> thinking and I'd like feedback or a better way.
> For 1) I have postponed the writing of the links until the verse is
> written. I could either wait until the next verse is ready to be
> written, or later. I've decided to wait until the very end and do the
> linking then. This might help solve 2 and 3.
>
> For 2) I'm thinking that the verse to append is the last verse in the
> chapter with content. By postponing linking until later, it will append
> to 1.29. Then the linking will propagate the final start/offset values
> for 1.29. The problem I have with this is that this is somewhat disk
> intensive. I start with the last verse in the chapter and get the raw
> text for it. If there is none, I then decrement and refetch until I find
> it. I looked for a way to know if a verse were part of a linked set and
> what the members of that set were, but I didn't see any in the SWORD
> engine. Am I missing it?

When I ran into this bug in dabbling with a SWORD front-end, I was
told that the only way to test for whether it is part of a set is to
compare the text of verse x with verse x-1.  I don't know that the
feature we both sought has been added.  If it has, I haven not heard
word of it.

Alternatively -- aren't we supposed to be moving to the VerseTreeKey?
Shouldn't a new module in the Beta stage be using that?  It seems like
that would completely do away with the problem.  Updating osis2mod to
use that, either as the default or as an option for a module like this
might eliminate the issue?

>
> For 3) this is fairly simple, one should not link verses that are not in
> the KJV versification.

That seems like a very stringent restriction.  If linking is supported
for the KJV system, why should it not be allowed for other systems?
It seems like linking should be fixed in a way to allow everyone to do
it.

--Greg

>
> In Christ,
>    DM
>
>
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