[sword-devel] Psalms, Books and XML

[Chris Little]

On 4/2/2010 4:57 AM, David Haslam wrote:
>
> This may be seen as a naïve question from someone who has not done enough
> homework....
>
> All other books in the Bible are usually called Books in Bible software,
> but Psalms (in some printed editions at least) actually comprises five books
> per se.
>
>    Book I = Psalms 1 to 41
>    Book II = Psalms 42 to 72
>    Book III = Psalms 73 to 89
>    Book IV = Psalms 90 to 106
>    Book V = Psalms 107 to 150
>
> A footnote in my copy of the 1962 French Synodale translation explains,
> "Le Receuil des Psaumes se divise en cinq livres".
>
> Is this aspect of the Bible structure addressed within the OSIS XML
> standard?

It was considered at the time of design.

> Does OSIS2MOD cater for an extra level of<div>  ...</div>  here ?

It shouldn't care.

> And how about facilitating the attribute name = "..." for these ?

<div type="majorSection">

There's another book that can customarily employ majorSection, but which 
one escapes me at the moment.

--Chris