[sword-devel] Parsing Strong's to support more flexible layout in user interface

[Tobias Klein]

Hi,

I'm currently working on Strong's support for Ezra Project.

I've been implementing a Strong's parsing functionality that enables 
flexible formatting of the Strong's definitions (from StrongsGreek and 
StrongsHebrew) in my frontend.
Without this functionality the frontend would have to "dump" the 
definition of a Strong's key and it wouldn't have freedom in how the 
definition is formatted / layed out.
Having this functionality available, the frontend can work with 
individual parts of the Strong's definition and apply specific 
formatting and layout.
The parsing divides a Strong's entry into:
- Transcription
- Phonetic transcription
- Definition
- List of references

In case of Ezra Project the formatting looks like this now: 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tobias-klein/ezra-project/master/screenshots/strongs_formatting_example.png

I'm pasting the definition of my StrongsEntry class below, which is the 
base for this implementation (see 
https://github.com/tobias-klein/node-sword-interface/blob/master/src/strongs_entry.hpp):

classStrongsEntry
{
public:
StrongsEntry(std::stringkey, std::stringrawEntry);
virtual~StrongsEntry(){}
staticStrongsEntry*getStrongsEntry(sword::SWModule*module, std::stringkey);
std::string rawEntry;
std::string key;
std::string transcription;
std::string phoneticTranscription;
std::string definition;
std::vector<StrongsReference> references;
private:
voidparseFromRawEntry(std::stringrawEntry);
voidparseFirstLine(std::stringfirstLine);
voideraseEmptyLines(std::vector<std::string>&lines);
voidparseDefinitionAndReferences(std::vector<std::string>&lines);
};

Now I'm wondering whether something like this could actually be useful 
as part of the Sword engine, since the use case of "flexible Strong's 
formatting" may also be relevant for other frontends.

Best regards,
Tobias

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