Simon wrote:
OSIS is XML, so it has a document structure inside. I don't know if the tools you mention can handle that, without the user having to type the structure tags...
My idea is to show the document structure in a Tree (just like a bookmodule
in Sword). Also I want to make pre-defined trees for editing a
biblecommmentary etc.
<div> structures in a tree are a good idea. <p> structures might be okay. Smaller units like <divineName>, <hi>, or <reference> probably shouldn't have their own tree nodes in a display. I don't know whether that was actually your plan or not, but watch out because there can be many more elements in a document than would be reasonable to display in a tree structure.
Also I don't want the user to type in any tag by theirself, neither do they have to see any tag. It has to work just like a word processor, not like a XML edit tool.
There's a difference between being forced to type in tags manually (which is bad for a user-friendly editor like you're trying to make) and a user being allowed to type tags in manually (which is good for a user-friendly editor aimed at users whose abilities will gradually increase). Dreamweaver and most other HTML editors have a nice dual display UI that lets users work either in a rendered text window (like a word processor) or a raw XML text window (for fine-grained editing).
Another thing that would be different when using another Edit program, is building in the possibility to test the text-references. What I want, is that if a user clicks a text-reference, the Sword API is called, and the text where it has a reference to, is shown in a popup...
Sword is a bit far from being able to handle OSIS references. We can handle the OT/NT Bible references only. Apocrypha and non-Biblical references still need to be handled, though some of the non-Biblical stuff is pretty close and just needs more hooks via private protocol and linking internal to the Sword frontends.
--Chris
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