Thanks Chris. I just toyed around with vs2osisref. Very cool. Its a good start. I tried all sorts of abbreviations and verse spans and it correctly interpreted all but the most obscure non-standard ones I threw at it. Now if we could just feed it a whole text file and have it loop through looking for everything it recognized and generate a logfile so you could eyeball the thing for mistakes, that would rock. I need to learn Perl.
by grace alone, Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Scripture Reference Tagging Tool > 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 _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
