Difference between revisions of "Whiteboard/TEI Dictionary Proposal"

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Revision as of 22:20, 22 April 2012

Summary

The current lexicon model allows for only flat dictionaries. A new model needs to take into account page numbers, non-alphabetic sorting, and hierarchical entries.

Features of the Current Model

The current dictionary model involves a flat dictionary that must be sorted according to unicode code points. This leads to a number of problems.

Proposed Features of a New Model

Example TEI File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.crosswire.org/2008/TEIOSIS/namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.crosswire.org/2008/TEIOSIS/namespace http://www.crosswire.org/OSIS/teiP5osis.1.4.xsd">
<text>
<body>
  <pb n="1"/>
  <div1><head>א</head>
    <superEntry id="אבב" trans="abb">Entry text
      <entry id="אב" trans="ab" strong="H3">Entry text</entry>
      <entry id="אביב" trans="abib" strong="H24">Entry text</entry>
    </superEntry>
    <superEntry id="אבד" trans="abd" strong="H6">
  <pb n="2"/>
      <entry id="אבד" trans="abd" strong="H8">Entry text</entry>
      <entry id="אבדה" trans="abdh" strong="H9">Entry text</entry>
      <entry id="אבדון" trans="abdwn" strong="H10">Entry text</entry>
    </superEntry>
  </div1>
</body>
</text>
</TEI>