[sword-devel] subsection references -- OSIS equivalent of ThML #anchor?

[Peter von Kaehne]

Sorry for top posting, I have to use right now a bad webmail. 

Would you not simply set a reference as per usual, but ensure that every element you might end up referring to has a OsisID?

Peter


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:44:53 +1100
> Von: Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com>
> An: "SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] subsection references -- OSIS equivalent of ThML	#anchor?

> Hi Karl,
> 
> I first asked about this over a year ago, and got no response (see
> http://n4.nabble.com/Linking-to-a-specific-location-in-an-article-td357981.html).
>  As I didn't really have time for the project I was wanting it for
> (linking
> the table of contents entries in dictionary articles like in the ISBE to
> that section in the lengthy article), I didn't end up pursuing it.  I did
> look at the OSIS manual, and it didn't seem to have any support for doing
> it
> with either the <a> element and <a name> or with placing a marker in some
> other way, nor did OSIS refs support such things.  It was a long time ago,
> though, so my memory could be faulty.  Another possibility I considered
> but
> did not investigate further was using the identifier for an OSIS section
> and
> putting in an <a name> element based on that and then linking to it.  This
> would work fine for the section navigation problem, but is probably
> 
> I would support the use of links to arbitrary points in an OSIS / ThML
> document, especially if modules where it made sense used it.  I don't have
> strong opinions on how to represent it, but I do think that the HTML
> support
> is reasonably well known and seems to work.  That being said, if work
> needed
> to be done to make BPBible support it I probably wouldn't do it any time
> soon (probably not until there were modules using it).
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Karl Kleinpaste
> <karl at kleinpaste.org>wrote:
> 
> > As folks here know, I continue to generate ThML modules, mostly due to
> > its simplicity of use via its "HTML plus goodies" nature, the goodies
> > being <note>, <scripRef>, and some <div> cases.  I'm looking for
> > information or opinion about whether something I've worked on, currently
> > specific to ThML, has an equivalent interpretation in OSIS.
> >
> > This week, I've done some work in Xiphos so as to be able to support
> > #anchor references.  The immediate use is for how I roll my own NET and
> > NETnote modules, NET being my most-used translation these days.  In NET,
> > I generate this kind of footnote content:
> >
> > <note><a href="sword://NETnote/Ge1:2#n13">Note 13</a></note>
> >
> > Now, in Xiphos, passing over a footnote marker "*n", "Note 13" goes to
> > the previewer, as a link.  Clicking the link kicks our main URL handler,
> > separating module+verse reference from anchor, navigates the reference
> > (in both Bible and commentary), then jumps to the anchor.
> >
> > Similarly, NETnote now has each note self-identified thus:
> >
> > <a name="n13" href="sword://NETnote/Ge1:2#n13"><font size="-1"><b>13
> > -</b></font></a>
> >
> > This provides the anchor reference name to be used from the NET
> > footnote, and also makes each note self-clickable, meaning that I can
> > click a footnote marker within NETnote itself (whether it's from the
> > current verse or not), to induce that footnote to home to top of pane
> > and force the Bible pane to navigate to the relevant verse as well.
> >
> > This content is easy and directly implementable for paired (companion)
> > modules like NET + NETnote.  Another use case for this markup is
> > e.g. the possibility of bookmark references in genbooks, where
> > /The/Section/Under/This/Complicated/Key may be very long, and
> > availability of references to individual paragraphs could be very
> > useful.  Tack on #paragraph12 to such a key, and now getting to a
> > particular reference in a 50-paragraph theological thesis section
> > becomes easy.
> >
> > I'm thinking about this kind of issue especially in terms of user
> > content authoring, that is, Xiphos now has personal commentary,
> > prayerlists and journals, and highlighter-style verse annotations, all
> > due to user requests for more user-contributed content.  Users who want
> > to author serious content in their own personal commentaries or journals
> > should be able to provide these kinds of markers in their own content,
> > and to reference others' markers when they write.
> >
> > Two problems, for which I'd like to see comment:
> >
> > [a] This capability is Xiphos-specific at the moment; I'm not aware that
> > any other Sword UI contemplates #anchor-specific navigation.  How do
> > others feel about making such a capability available?
> >
> > [b] One question is whether there is a semantic equivalent of #anchor in
> > OSIS.  Does the syntax for osisRef provide for subsection indication?
> > Can it escape the filtration system so as to arrive at the app in this
> > kind of URL #anchor?  Generally, what's the state of osisRef support?
> >
> > --karl
> >
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