OSIS? 2.0.1 User's Manual - Web services are running on AMBIB

8. Title Pages
In order to make the encoding of title pages as found in standard works easier, <strong>OSIS</strong> 2.0
introduced the titlePage element. This element contains the following elements from the
header: title, contributor, creator, subject, date, description, publisher, type, format,
identifier, source, language, relation, coverage, which <strong>are</strong> explained in the material on
the header section. Three additional elements <strong>are</strong> allowed, which <strong>are</strong> figure, milestone,
and, p. Due to the complexity of title pages, all of these elements may occur in any order
inside the titlePage element.
The titlePage element can occur within the osis, osisText, and, osisCorpus elements.
Users just starting with <strong>OSIS</strong> should use a minimum headers and simple titlePage
element until they have gained some experience with text encoding and determining what
is, or perhaps more importantly, what is not useful to have encoded in a work.
9. Basic Elements
While book, chapter, and verse numbers <strong>are</strong> a familiar and useful way of referring to
locations in the Bible, they often conflict with the boundaries of parables, stories,
genealogies, paragraphs, quotations, and other important units of understanding. Even to
print a well-formatted Bible edition, and much more to support high-end search,
annotation, and other capabilities, these meaningful units must also commonly be
marked.
It is possible to encode a Bible using only book, chapter, and verse markup. However,
most encoders also want to also represent sections, paragraphs, quotations, and so on.
Higher-level structures <strong>are</strong> tagged as div, for "division", with a type attribute to specify
the particular significance. div elements can occur within other div elements to any
number of levels. The first and outermost div should occur immediately after the end of
the header. For example,
Genesis
1
In the beginning,...
The earth was formless and
void...
...