[sword-devel] stripText -vs- ESV's quotation marks

Peter von Kaehne refdoc at gmx.net
Wed Oct 12 14:54:39 MST 2016


Karl, can you put this onto the bug tracker? It sounds like the kind of thing I can fix, but the tracker is my reminder for that.

Thanks

Peter

Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 12 Oct 2016 8:51 pm, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
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> Got a bug report on Xiphos, that export out of ESV is losing quotations marks.
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> Export as HTML does not lose them; export as plain text does.  The difference is use of mod->stripText().
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> ESV uses <q> around quotations.  My test verse is Matt.7.1...
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>> <title subType="x-preverse" type="section">Judging Others</title><q marker="" who="Jesus"><note n="r" osisID="Matt.7.1!crossReference.r" osisRef="Matt.7.1" type="crossReference">For <reference osisRef="Matt.7.1-Matt.7.5">ver. 1-5</reference>, see <reference osisRef="Luke.6.37-Luke.6.38">Luke 6:37, 38</reference>, <reference osisRef="Luke.6.41-Luke.6.42">41, 42</reference>; [<reference osisRef="Rom.14.13">Rom. 14:13</reference>; <reference osisRef="1Cor.4.5">1 Cor. 4:5</reference>; <reference osisRef="Jas.5.9">James 5:9</reference>]</note><milestone marker="“" type="cQuote"/>Judge not, that you be not judged.</q>
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> As typically rendered, this is...
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> “Judge not, that you be not judged. But as extracted with stripText, it's just...
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>> Judge not, that you be not judged.
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> ...which loses the opening quotation.
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> It's not clear there's a resolution to this any less complicated than "handle <q> quotation marks first, then strip everything out."


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