MAM-XML

This repo has an extract of MAM in an XML format that is simple but not complete. See:

• out/xml-vtrad-bhs for files in this XML format that use BHS versification
• out/xml-vtrad-sef for files in this XML format that use Sefaria versification

This repo also has a program, py/main_mam4sef.py, that is an example of how the XML can be used. This program uses the XML to create the Sefaria-format (CSV/HTML) version of MAM.

The source of this data is the MAM Google Sheet.

Other versions/formats of MAM (each with their tradeoffs) include:

• MAM-parsed
• MAM for Sefaria

One obscure-but-cool feature of this XML format is that the <verse> element has attributes that describe the way in which the versification (BHS or Sefaria) differs from MAM's native versification. Here are three abbreviated examples:

<verse osisID="1Sam.24.1"
       contents-corresponds-to="a full verse in MAM"
       osisID-of-MAM-src="1Sam.23.29"/>
<verse osisID="Deut.5.7"
       contents-corresponds-to="less than a full verse in MAM"
       osisID-of-MAM-src="Deut.5.6">
<verse osisID="Josh.21.36"
       contents-corresponds-to="no verse in MAM"/>

As you can see above, these versification-related attributes are contents-corresponds-to and osisID-of-MAM-src. The contents-corresponds-to attribute can take on one of three values:

• a full verse in MAM
• less than a full verse in MAM
• no verse in MAM

The osisID-of-MAM-src attribute complements the first two cases above. It says which verse in MAM this verse fully or partially corresponds to.