Talk:Whiteboard

Modules - simplify more for those who are not experts in SWORD

Obviously, there are very smart people doing the SWORD Project. Even with a little coding, a substantial learning curve was still perceived for SWORD. While this maybe because I learn slower, is the following reasonable as a module simplification?

Supply, double check, or explain module examples to enable those who prepare content to annotate basic SWORD module sections (or TEI tags) without requiring operation of a SWORD utility, or successfully producing a SWORD module. Different XML tags were observed at a site with Hebrew scriptures at tanach.us and a site with Greek scriptures at SBLGNT. The folks at those sites probably have above average software expertise, and even with the expertise, different XML tags were observed that didn't look compatible. If incompatible among themselves, it is assumed they are also not compatible with SWORD module utility, and present inefficiency between projects.

If the SWORD tags are not simple enough, this might increase the temptation for future programmers making new software to make it incompatible with existing SWORD code, in like manner as the data. Expecting the proposer of an issue to contribute is OK, but it might not help SWORD if they do a contribution, but the contribution is incompatible with SWORD.