[sword-devel] How to access raw OSIS files

[Philip White]

Thanks for the responses. I will consider using the Sword library. One
reason I am reluctant to do so is my preference for C over C++.
Another is my preference for building software on top of standards
instead of ad-hoc knowledge.

> This is the beauty of the Sword library. It hides all the rest of those questions:
> 1) Which format did it come from? OSIS? ThML? Who even knows?
> 2) What is the source of the original text? Could be nearly anywhere.
> 3) What is the source encoding? Could be lots of things. Sword will normalize this all to UTF-8 for you.

All three of these points seem less about the library, and more about
the final modules themselves. Does the library itself normalize this,
or is it normalized when the modules are created? I guess I thought
that all modules came from OSIS sources, which I guess is incorrect.

- Philip