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Esther with traditional verse elements, i.e., as containers and others with the
milestoneable verses. The reason is quite simple, inconsistent markup is more
difficult to process and makes the encoded text less useful for everyone.
This is equivalent to the TEI "milestone" method for marking such phenomena. It has the
advantage that milestones representing a given type of element have the same name as
the element, and automatically have the same attributes. Although XML itself will not
detect a validation error if attributes other than eID <strong>are</strong> specified on the ending
milestone, eID is specified on the starting milestone, or the start and end milestones <strong>are</strong>
in the wrong order, each of these conditions is an <strong>OSIS</strong> error.
For <strong>OSIS</strong> purposes, there is no semantic difference between marking up a chapter or
verse as a container using a start and end tag, versus marking it up as a "milestone pair"
consisting of two empty tags.
Note: Typesetting and layout systems vary in their ability to accommodate nonhierarchical
markup such as this. Fortunately, in most Bible editions the only formatting
consequence of a verse element is insertion of the verse number, and perhaps insertion of
a line-break; these <strong>are</strong> within the capabilities of most layout and style systems even
though the verse is not a container in XML terms.
12. Special Text Types
The bulk of the remaining <strong>OSIS</strong> elements fall into a few simple classes: First, markup for
special text types, such as epistles and drama. Second, generic structures such as lists,
tables and glossaries (typically found in appendixes of printed Bibles). And finally,
small-scale elements that mark, quotations, notes, names, index entries, and the like.
12.1. Markup for epistles and similar materials
Letters, epistles, and similar texts <strong>are</strong> marked up in basically the same way as any other
text. However, three special elements <strong>are</strong> available for marking portions unique to this
genre:
12.1.1. salute
The salute element encloses the salutation or greeting, typically at the very beginning of
a letter. It should include the whole salutation, including (if present) the "to", "from", and
any following greeting or blessing. If the boundaries of a salutation <strong>are</strong> the same as the
boundaries of a paragraph, section, or other unit, that unit should be placed outside, with
the salute element directly within. For example (LBP):
The First Epistle to Timothy