schierlm
commented
7 years ago Hello Phil,
thank you for your feedback.
Actually, the fact that the verses are self closing and have a "sID", and there is a duplicate tag at the end with an "eID" is a feature of OSIS, called OSIS milestones: https://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles#OSIS_Milestones
According to the specification, there are several kinds of elements (chapter, verse, paragraph, line group, quote) that can be milestoned (but if a tag is milestoned, all occurrences of the same tag has to be milestoned).
The OSIS importer can (I believe) handle all cases of milestones, however the exporter is currently limited to a single format (Verses are milestoned, everything else is not).
The background for creating milestoned elements is that logical content (like verses) can span physical content (e. g. a verse can start in the middle of a paragraph and end in the middle of a line group, or a quote can start in the middle of one verse and end in the middle of another).
When converting from certain source formats (like Zefania XML or Haggai XML or TheWord), all these cases cannot happen though, as those formats do not support quotes and paragraphs need to be at the end of verses.
Therefore, I'll add an export option to the exporter to choose which tags you want to have milestoned (so you can choose if you prefer quotes or verses, or neither in case the bible does not have overlaps here).
In general case, removing milestones using XSL is impossible, as it may result in "non-valid XML". Therefore it is probably easier to add that option.
May I ask which program you try to import this OSIS file that claims to support OSIS but does not support milestoned verses? I know of a few programs that cannot import unmilestoned verses, but no one for the other way round.
For the suboptimal handling of metadata in some conversion directions (e. g. Zefania XML to OSIS) I've opened a new issue, #9, but I'm not planning to fix it immediately.
j2l
Hi,
First of all, thank you very much for this tool, a true open source bible tool is fresh air!
My first try from Zefania XML to OSIS produced the XML file, but format is incorrect, here are details:
Zefania XML format for verse is:
<VERS vnumber="1">Au commencement, Dieu créa les cieux et la terre.</VERS>Result from BibleMultiConverter is:
<verse osisID="Gen.1.1" sID="Gen.1.1"/>Au commencement, Dieu créa les cieux et la terre.<verse eID="Gen.1.1"/>You can see that tags are self closing before and after verse, " is kept, and attributes are duplicated before and after. Result should be something like:<verse osisID='Gen.1.1'>Au commencement, Dieu créa les cieux et la terre.</verse>Additionally, header "work/title" tag is written in the header, but following header work tags are written to "a new first div", in place of Genesis.
Is it possible to fix? Or to indicate where is the XSL Template to fix it? Thank you very much, God bless you!