What motivated me to “write” such a script was a couple of recent emails where 
people were having a hard time determining which v11n to use and were using 
osis2mod by trial and error to figure it out.

No one had suggested Greg’s excellent tool. So I assumed there was an unmet 
need.


> On Jun 19, 2025, at 1:22 AM, Peter von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> That script is what I have used for years witg good effect. Thank you Greg. 
> 
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>  
> From: sword-devel <sword-devel-boun...@crosswire.org> on behalf of Greg 
> Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2025 6:41 am
> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Script to find a best fit v11n
>  
> My script eschews percentages because they seemed relatively pointless to me 
> for measuring a mismatch like this. Instead it gives a count of both Old and 
> New Testament osisIDs that it finds missing and another that it finds 
> unexpectedly for a given versification. If the total of either count is fewer 
> than 100, the IDs for that particular count are printed to the console. It 
> will do this for every registered versification in the version of the library 
> it was compiled against, allowing the user to select whichever one seems best 
> to them based on the results.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 10:25 PM David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com 
> <mailto:dfh...@protonmail.com>> wrote:
> It’s not just the number of “missing” verses that should figure in the 
> percentage score, but also the number of verses that get concatenated to the 
> last one in a chapter.
> 
> The differences in v11n for the Psalms will be especially significant for 
> this, in that some v11n renumber many of them. Likewise for the last few 
> chapters in the book of Job.
> 
> Aside: It would be cool to enhance the utility emptyvss by providing a 
> command line option that would ignore books that are not included in the 
> scope parameter in the conf file.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
> 
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 03:18, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org 
> <mailto:On+Thu,+Jun+19,+2025+at+03:18,+DM+Smith+%3C%3Ca+href=>> wrote:
> David,
> 
> Because it only considers the xml, scope is automatically built into it. It 
> is only comparing what is present in the xml with what is part of the av11ns. 
> 
> It might be good to add the enumeration of missing verses.
> 
> — DM
> 
> On Jun 18, 2025, at 4:02 PM, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com 
> <mailto:dfh...@protonmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Does it take account of the Scope key in the .conf file for a less than 
> complete Bible ?
> 
> David
> 
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> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 20:51, DM Smith < dmsm...@crosswire.org 
> <mailto:On+Wed,+Jun+18,+2025+at+20:51,+DM+Smith+%3C%3Ca+href=>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Several have commented on how hard it is to test an OSIS xml file against 
> v11ns especially since it goes off into an infinite loop. (I’ve posted a 
> patch that fixes that) But it is still a process of trial and error to find 
> an appropriate v11n.
> 
> So, I’ve been iterating with chatGPT to create a python script to find a best 
> fit v11n. Since I don’t know python, I can’t vouch for the script beyond it 
> worked for a simple test case that had an extra chapter for Genesis and had 
> some extra verses at the end of a chapter in that book.
> 
> I offer it, as a starting place. See the attached file.
> 
> It has a —debug flag.
> The first argument is expected to be the OSIS xml file.
> The second argument is optional and gives the location to the include 
> directory of svn/sword/trunk/include with all the canon*.h files. If you 
> don’t supply the argument, it uses the web to load the canon*.h files from 
> https://www.crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/include. 
> 
> It will score the fitness of each of the v11ns. It gives the score as a %, 
> but I don’t know what that means. I told it that it should prioritize book 
> matches, then chapter matches and finally verse matches. I don’t know how 
> well it did that scoring. I didn’t test for that.
> 
> The output is alphabetized. If more than one v11n have the same high score, 
> they are listed.
> 
> In His Service,
> DM
> 
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