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

• To identify a reference into a Biblical or other passage, that is not contained at the
point of reference. For example, "The correctness of my exegesis is
incontrovertibly proven by the first verse of
Matthew."
• In the header, to identify what portions of the Bible <strong>are</strong> included in a decl<strong>are</strong>d
work. For example, a particular edition may include only the NT and Psalms. The
scope element may be used to specify each relevant portion.
14.1. Partial identifiers
It is permissible to refer to an entire chapter by simply omitting the verse number and the
preceding ".", for example:
Matt.5
Similarly, it is permissible to refer to an entire book by omitting the chapter and verse
number and both corresponding periods:
1Cor
For those books of the Bible that have only 1 chapter, the chapter number "1" must be
specified: The first verse of Jude is thus Jude.1.1, not Jude.1.
14.2. Works
A reference can also identify a place in a particular edition or translation of the Bible, or
to other works entirely, such as Josephus, writing of the Apostolic fathers, classical or
modern literature, and so on. We discuss later how to decl<strong>are</strong> particular works and give
them local short names. Once that is done, the short name for any decl<strong>are</strong>d work can be
put before any reference to it, for example:
NIV:Matt.1.1
The colon is required, to make it is clear where the work ends and the within-work
reference begins. Most commonly, however, the work is omitted (the default work used
then is whatever work was named on the osisWorkID attribute of the osisText element).
It is possible to refer to an entire work, such as the whole CEV, NIV, KJV, the Iliad, etc.
However, to do so the work name must be stated, and the following colon must be
included (without the colon, it would be interpreted as a top-level identifier within the
default work).
14.3. Sub-identifiers