DM Smith wrote:
I've had similar experience. It appears that OSIS is geared to Biblical
texts and not other texts. The documentation regarding commentaries is
lacking. (Supposedly the support is present.) There is no support for
dictionaries, with the long promise that it is coming.
Basic dictionary encoding (i.e. <div type="entry"><title>blah</title>
blah blah</div>) is possible. More complex things are really outside the
scope of OSIS, so we will probably point users to TEI for dictionary
markup. Complete dictionary support is really an impractically large
problem for OSIS to solve. But for the needs of Sword, the existing OSIS
schema is probably sufficient. (I know Troy wants to mark every little
bit of information within an entry, but from the perspective of actual
NEEDS, there's not much we would do with that other than presentational
changes. In the future we may want to permit searching dictionaries by
some of that internal data, but for the present we don't.)
> I have also posted questions to this list regarding the "best"
practices
for marking a commentary for the creation of a module but have received
no reply.
I thought I had already posted that. If not, see my reply to Lynn. :)
With that said, I think that OSIS is usable now for Bible modules.
Without guidance, it is not usable for commentary modules. Without an
improvement in the spec it is not usable at all for dictionaries.
What will provide traction for OSIS is a corpus of whole documents of
several different types marked up according to published best practices.
These types should include Bibles, BCV based Bible commentaries, general
biblical works, time based devotionals, and theological dictionaries.
I think that CrossWire has a unique ability to lead this effort. I think
that we should continue to push this direction.
Good ideas. :) I think we're kind of working in that direction, but
there's much yet to be done.
--Chris
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