Re: [sword-devel] XSLT vs. C++

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Hellings
I also forgot to mention the following: If we want to encourage people to use XML because it can validate and detect errors, etc, why don't we use XML utilities with that functionality ourselves? And, it's not like this work hasn't already been partially tackled with JSword's library from which w

Re: [sword-devel] XSLT vs. C++

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Having finally returned from a hectic 2 weeks of conferences, and lots > to do before leaving for Christmas, I'm not sure I'm up for a heated, > passionate debate about technologies right now, but by all means, please > commence the publi

Re: [sword-devel] XSLT vs. C++

2010-11-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Thanks Troy, Probably I am the worst person to answer first, but it was me who threw the matter once again into the ring. Hence... On 30/11/10 19:08, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Having finally returned from a hectic 2 weeks of conferences, and lots > to do before leaving for Christmas, I'm not sur

Re: [sword-devel] Converting Formats (was Re: Config file for thml module)

2010-11-30 Thread Chris Little
On 11/30/2010 2:38 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: I realize you'll probably be working off of plenty of source texts, but for those where the source text might not exist or for any other number of reasons your conversion might go a little faster if the filters in the engine were in top shape - provid

[sword-devel] Converting Formats (was Re: Config file for thml module)

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Hellings
I realize you'll probably be working off of plenty of source texts, but for those where the source text might not exist or for any other number of reasons your conversion might go a little faster if the filters in the engine were in top shape - provided you wanted to pass them through that. With o

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module

2010-11-30 Thread Chris Little
On 11/30/2010 6:58 AM, Greg Hellings wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Chris Little wrote: It's also worth noting that only the OSIS and TEI counts are likely to increase much in the future. For your work, perhaps. But with the current state of OSIS vs ThML that I mentioned in my em

[sword-devel] XSLT vs. C++

2010-11-30 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Having finally returned from a hectic 2 weeks of conferences, and lots to do before leaving for Christmas, I'm not sure I'm up for a heated, passionate debate about technologies right now, but by all means, please commence the public discussion. Let me start by saying that everyone (I believe) agr

Re: [sword-devel] Markup Options

2010-11-30 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
"Peter von Kaehne" writes: > I would much rather we produced good modules and filed endless numbers of > bug reports against any application and the library for non-compliance if > things which should work do not work, instead of targetting the oddities > and non-compliant aspects of each applicat

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module [SOLVED]

2010-11-30 Thread Mario Marín
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:35:13PM +0100, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > > Von: "Mario Marín" > > >you can consider this thread as closed. > > LOL - if you think you could stop a developing flamefest over OSIS vs > ThML between us CrossWire lot so easily, you have a lot to learn > still... ;-) I

Re: [sword-devel] Markup Options

2010-11-30 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Greg Hellings writes: > 2) I can provide an external CSS stylesheet along with my module. > Then I could still use OSIS and, assuming well-defined use of HTML+CSS > classes being produced from OSIS by the engine, I could style the > module the way I desired. This would not require terribly much w

Re: [sword-devel] Markup Options (was Re: Config file for thml module)

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > >> Von: Greg Hellings > >> However, a few problems arise.  Namely, I have no control over the >> display of the text in my target applications (Xiphos and Bibletime) >> when I use OSIS.  You, being in the semantics-please camp, might thin

Re: [sword-devel] Markup Options (was Re: Config file for thml module)

2010-11-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
> Von: Greg Hellings > However, a few problems arise. Namely, I have no control over the > display of the text in my target applications (Xiphos and Bibletime) > when I use OSIS. You, being in the semantics-please camp, might think > that's a good thing. You've stymied my attempt, as a conten

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Chris Little wrote: > OSIS 212 modules > ThML 156 modules > Plaintext 42 modules > GBF 30 modules > TEI 22 modules And Xiphos' repository has another 41 ThML and 7 OSIS (I also see 1 plain, 1 TEI and 1 GBF) which makes it 219 OSIS and 197 ThML. My InstallMgr rep

[sword-devel] Markup Options (was Re: Config file for thml module)

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Hellings
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Greg Hellings wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:30 PM, DM Smith wrote: >> > ROFL is semantic markup. It is a level 1 heading. Given that this >> > is one of HTML's title markup, one probably can deduce that it is

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module [SOLVED]

2010-11-30 Thread Peter von Kaehne
> Von: "Mario Marín" >you can consider this thread as closed. LOL - if you think you could stop a developing flamefest over OSIS vs ThML between us CrossWire lot so easily, you have a lot to learn still... ;-) This thread is a repetitive occurence, usually around this time of the year when

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module [SOLVED]

2010-11-30 Thread Mario Marín
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Brian J. Dumont wrote: > On 11/29/2010 05:18 PM, David Haslam wrote: > > Though this enquiry has generated a number of "asides", mmfmarin is still > > awaiting help on using this. > > > To summarize: it seems to me, that we've presented mmfmarin with two

Re: [sword-devel] Config file for thml module

2010-11-30 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Greg Hellings wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:30 PM, DM Smith wrote: > > ROFL is semantic markup. It is a level 1 heading. Given that this > > is one of HTML's title markup, one probably can deduce that it is a title. > > Note that IE, FireFox, Opera, Safari are not con