[sword-devel] references

[Chris Little]

On 7/26/2010 12:30 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> Many thanks Chris,
>
> I think this answers my problem:
>> E.g.:
>> <reference osisRef="Exod.5.2">2. Mose 5,2</reference>
> The problem then is that usfm2osis.pl does not (yet) create such
> references with my texts. I presume I need to do some work to it.
> Currently the references look like
>
> <reference>2. Mose 5,2</reference>

Right, usfm2osis.pl doesn't have the data necessary to parse & interpret 
localized references. I usually a followup pass (once I'm happy with the 
rest of the conversion) that looks for every instance of 
<reference>...</reference> and uses it as input to vs2osisref.

vs2osisref should have an option to take a locale value, so it can 
interpret localized references. Then it will use Sword itself to parse 
references individually. Since vs2osisref has to be executed separately 
for every reference in a work, it can take a very long time to complete 
this. (I've seen upwards of 15-20 minutes for some commentaries with 
lots of references.)

If you need, I can write a little script to scan an OSIS doc and call 
vs2osisref, but it may or may not be entirely OS-independent. Since it 
requires Sword and requires calling an outside executable, I'd rather 
not integrate this directly in usfm2osis.pl.

--Chris