[Asaph-developers] xml format

[David F. <da...@sj...>]

Hi Daniel

As I said I have a few questions about the xml file format.
These mostly arise from the differing needs of presenting songs I guess.
1) Is there a way to mark blocks as chorus / verse etc. The reason this 
would be useful is for style changes e.g. displaying the chorus in 
italics (I know it can currently be indented).
2) Likewise, it would be nice to be able to mark lines as translations 
(we sing a number of non-English songs that often have translations 
below each line).
If there isn't a way to do the above, could there be a way to specify 
such attributes so that they will still be preserved when Asaph edits 
the files?
I think the way you have specified chords is great, it makes it really easy.

I was also wondering about the use of ids to mark lines, blocks, songs, 
etc. They seem a bit redundant to me in that they are predictable and 
don't neccessarily add much information to the song database.
In particular, I was thinking that it would be quite useful to be able 
to have a song file specified for the song (in an indexed database) so 
instead of being song_b_a.xml it would be nothing_but_the_blood.xml. The 
advantage of this would be that you could have multiple indexes on the 
same set of songs and you could use the indexes to save lists of songs 
e.g. the list of songs for this Sunday morning etc.

Let me know what you think about the above.

Thanks
David