[sword-devel] Script to find a best fit v11n

Greg Hellings greg.hellings at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 16:05:46 EDT 2025


No. Both DM's script (and mine) operate on an OSIS file. Not on a module.

--Greg

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Does it take account of the Scope key in the .conf file for a less than
> complete Bible ?
>
> David
>
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>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 20:51, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org
> <On+Wed,+Jun+18,+2025+at+20:51,+DM+Smith+%3C%3Ca+href=>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Several have commented on how hard it is to test an OSIS xml file against
> v11ns especially since it goes off into an infinite loop. (I’ve posted a
> patch that fixes that) But it is still a process of trial and error to find
> an appropriate v11n.
>
> So, I’ve been iterating with chatGPT to create a python script to find a
> best fit v11n. Since I don’t know python, I can’t vouch for the script
> beyond it worked for a simple test case that had an extra chapter for
> Genesis and had some extra verses at the end of a chapter in that book.
>
> I offer it, as a starting place. See the attached file.
>
> It has a —debug flag.
> The first argument is expected to be the OSIS xml file.
> The second argument is optional and gives the location to the include
> directory of svn/sword/trunk/include with all the canon*.h files. If you
> don’t supply the argument, it uses the web to load the canon*.h files from
> https://www.crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/include.
>
> It will score the fitness of each of the v11ns. It gives the score as a %,
> but I don’t know what that means. I told it that it should prioritize book
> matches, then chapter matches and finally verse matches. I don’t know how
> well it did that scoring. I didn’t test for that.
>
> The output is alphabetized. If more than one v11n have the same high
> score, they are listed.
>
> In His Service,
> DM
>
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