[sword-devel] references

[Chris Little]

Biblical cross-references? Such as Exodus ch. 5 vs. 2?

Such references are marked with a <reference/> element. Its osisRef 
attribute will indicate the referent. Its CDATA will be some (presumably 
localized) representation of the reference.

E.g.:
<reference osisRef="Exod.5.2">2. Mose 5,2</reference>

The osisRef is non-linguistic data, so it doesn't ever get localized. 
It's just coincidence that it looks exactly like the English language 
SBL Bible book abbreviations.

All front ends /should/ use the osisRef to decode the reference. Some 
might use the CDATA, which would work fine, assuming the locale of the 
module matches the user's current loaded locale. (I would call that a 
bug, but I don't know that any front ends do or do not exhibit this bug.)

--Chris


On 7/25/2010 6:28 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> What is the correct way to encode OSIS crossreferences?
>
> Specifically - does/should it matter which locale is used? Are all
> frontends capable of reading and dealing with non-English cross-references?
>
> Peter
>
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