[sword-devel] osis2mod and Xinclude ?

[DM Smith]

osis2mod already has a flag -a that will allow content to be appended to a module. I think if a copy of the KJV is made that the -a flag with the Apocrypha.xml (or whatever it is called) could be added in.

> On Jan 30, 2025, at 11:16 AM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What would it take to enable osis2mod to process a top level OSIS file that called subsidiary XML files using the Xinclude feature?
> 
> See https://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/
> and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XInclude
> 
> Potential use:
> 
> Instead of having to script the merging of two OSIS files (e.g. for the KJV books and the KJVDC books to make a large XML file from which to make the KJVA module), the two OSIS files could be included by name in a small OSIS file. If osis2mod could run with that, it would be a simpler task to update the KJVA module whenever the KJV module is being updated.
> 
> It seems a shame if we could not take advantage of this standard feature of XML with the main tool we use for making Bible modules.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David
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