What is involved in converting my Biblical texts into the OSIS format?
The task may be nearly trivial, or very far from trivial, depending on what you are converting from. At one extreme, tagged formats such as ThML, XSEM, SFM, LGM and the like can often be converted with small to moderate sized Perl or XSLT scripts. Hundreds of documents have been converted in this way, and OSIS intends to make tools available on a free, as-is basis to assist in such conversions. Word-processor files are more difficult, because in practice they seldom use styles consistently; however, there are numerous tools to assist in word-processor to XML conversion. Files in obsolete or undocumented formats pose the same problems they would regardless of what you might choose to convert them to.
