On 11/29/2010 12:30 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
And ThML continues to be used to create Bible modules because it is
the best tool for module creators who care about their presentation
The problem I have with that part of the statement is that often
presentation is presumed to be rather singular: How it looks in one
application.
Have you seen how the rich markup is stripped from The SWORD Project for
Windows? How about what it looks like on a phone?
more than some semantic dream world of markup.
I guess you mean OSIS? Where does OSIS lack in markup that it cannot be
presented well? JSword/BibleDesktop transforms ThML into OSIS and then
renders that. So how is one better than the other? What does BD/JS lack
in it's presentation?
But that is besides the point. Transforming ThML into OSIS does not
really add much. And my guess is that it is not lossy. But the real
value come in running it through osis2mod, which will point out problems
with the input and will transform it into something that SWORD and
JSword can digest fairly well.
To create a ThML Bible or commentary you will need to use the imp
format and then just markup within the verses with the markup you
want. For example
$$$Matthew 1:1
The book of the genealogy of the Christ<br/><I>From</I> Abraham to the...
$$$Matthew 1:2
And Abraham begot Isaac<br/>And Isaac <I>begot</I> Jacob and his brothers
$$$Matthew 1:3
...
Then run imp2mod on that input and set its source as ThML and live
happily ever after. The imp file probably will not form a valid ThML
XML document, but that is unavoidable in this case.
The imp file is not xml and it will not be well-formed, let alone valid
XML. This is not a bad thing in and of itself, but unless the ThML
fragments are otherwise valid, such a module may not work well. It might
work in part. For example, at worse, JSword will strip out all the
markup and present the plain text of offending text. Notes and
references will be inlined.
If your ThML file passes XML validation and your conversion to IMP
format merely replaces the start verse markers with IMP markers and
deletes the end verse marker, it should work well.
Stick with the ThML markup that SWORD and JSword supports. Specifically
this is mentioned at: http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/ThML_modules
Hope this helps.
In Him,
DM
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