[sword-devel] Determining the absolute verse number/index of a verse within a book

[Tobias Klein]

Hi,

I've been trying to determine the absolute verse number/index of a verse 
within a book.

SWModule::getIndex() and VerseKey::getIndex() each return the index 
within the whole module, but I need the index of a verse within the same 
book.

I tried to calculate this absolute verse index/number by getting a 
second verse key that points to the first verse of the same book and 
then taking the difference between this second key and the key of the 
verse I'm looking at. That "kind of" worked. However, the book/chapter 
introductions seem to be counted as well and I did not find a way to 
avoid that.

Any pointers? :)

Best regards,
Tobias

PS:
I'm doing this while porting Ezra Project to use Sword directly (instead 
of reading text from my database).
In Ezra Project I am "addressing" verses using the book + absolute verse 
number. This way I'm storing "verse reference" objects and then tags get 
associated with those verse reference objects.
Getting the absolute verse number is easy when fetching a whole book (I 
simply generate it myself in this case). But when I for example get 
search results via Sword, then I get individual verses and can't easily 
generate the absolute verse number. Even in that case I still need to 
match search result verses with existing tags and that's where I run 
into the above mentioned issue.