On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: > Is there a scripture reference tagging tool? It seems I remember Chris > mentioning one once. What I mean is a tool that would suck up an input file, > recognize verse reference strings like "John 3:16" and wrap some sort of > ThML/OSIS/whatever markup around it.
Not currently. There are two parts to the problem: First is recognizing the reference. This is generally very difficult because of the hundreds of ways you can identify a passage, plus the myriad book abbreviations/names that can be used, plus the different possibilities for ranges/lists of verses. I wrote something in Perl to do this for the Catholic Encyclopedia a while back, but haven't been able to locate it. It was extremely specific to that text anyway. Perl seems like the best way handle recognizing references because of its regular expression support. Second, you need to convert the reference to OSIS. For simple references this is pretty simple, but anything with dis-contiguous ranges/lists will require that you decide where the parts are located in the reference and mark them. There's a vs2osisref utility in the utilities directory that you may use to generate the actual OSIS tags, but it's a long way from a complete solution. This would be a good area for someone looking to have a little project to work in. :) If the Perl/regex part could be converted to C, that would be even better. --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
