[osis-editors] Re: [LTS]Re: SFM to XML conversion

[Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson]

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At 10:43 13-02-04, Peter Kirk wrote:
>Thanks for your useful comments and your recommendations for 
>Scripture 
>data. Do you have any recommendations for an XML schema and 
>documentation for lexical data for biblical Hebrew, my current 
>interest?

Sorry, but I don't know of any. I haven't done an exhaustive search, 
either, so there may be one. You may have to invent one.

>I think we would like to be compatible with OSIS e.g. in Scripture 
>reference formats.

This would be good.

>(I note however one limitation of the OSIS reference format as 
>defined 
>in 
>http://img.forministry.com/7BB51FB8-84B3-4FF3-939ED473FA90A632/DOC/OSI
>S_User
>_Guide_7-03_Draft.pdf: 
>there does not seem to be any support for word level references to 
>specific words in a text - which I accept is a meaningful concept 
>only 
>when the precise text is specified.)

The current OSIS reference format includes two ways to reference a 
specific place within a verse, either by character count, or by 
matching a word. Please see
http://img.forministry.com/7BB51FB8-84B3-4FF3-939ED473FA90A632/DOC/osi
sUserManual__12.pdf (which you will probably have to reassemble on one 
line) and look in section 22.4 (Grains).

It seems that it is harder than it should be to find the current OSIS 
documentation from the OSIS main web site or the corresponding Plone 
portal. Look for OSIS 2.0.1 User's manual & schemas. You could easily 
think they were still at version 1.1 or 1.5.

I am redistributing a copy of the OSIS 2.0.1 schema, along with a 
sample OSIS Bible at http://eBible.org/web/webosis.zip, if anyone is 
interested.


Kahunapule M. P. Johnson <Michael_Paul_Johnson@sil.org>
http://eBible.org/mpj/

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