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openbibleinfo / Bible-Passage-Reference-Parser

Coffeescript to identify and understand Bible references like "John 3:16."
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Question about translation info #25

Closed xdgimf closed 7 years ago

xdgimf commented 8 years ago

Does the book order returned by translation_info change? for example a book with index of 99 in translation_info() might be different in translation_info('niv')

openbibleinfo commented 8 years ago

It can, yes. The NAB translation included in the English bundle, for example, has a different book order for the Old Testament: default places after Revelation the books Protestants consider to be Deuterocanonical, while nab intermixes them with Old Testament books.

xdgimf commented 8 years ago

Oh i see, Does the books also change? for example, a book in default translation might not be included in other translations

openbibleinfo commented 8 years ago

That's theoretically possible, and the parser can handle that case, but in practice none of the translations included in the parser do that.

xdgimf commented 8 years ago

I actually plan to create a bible db that uses a pattern i found here https://github.com/scrollmapper/bible_databases, it uses a verse id system Genesis 1:1 (Genesis chapter 1, verse 1) = 01001001 (01 001 001)

After I parse the passage, bcv will be converted to id { b: 'Gen', c: 1, v: 1 } to 01001001 Passage that contains multiple verse will be converted to array of ids [01001001, 01001002, 01001003]

Anyway thanks for making this library open source, it really saves me time!

openbibleinfo commented 8 years ago

For those, I'd use the default book ids. 01-66 are definitely compatible with what they're doing there. I didn't see any books in the Apocrypha there, so you should be good.