Religious Title Style

Validate a religious-title reference against supplied title-use policy.

Description

Religious title rendering combines a selected title with a name when the title is required.

Religious title rendering combines a selected title with a name when the title is required. Exact comparison makes the chosen style convention explicit.^[1]

Validate a religious-title reference against supplied title-use policy.

When to use Religious Title Style

Use this tool to validate a religious-title reference against supplied title-use policy.

Prepare the text, recorded observations, aligned figures or editorial criteria requested. Confirm what each label, count, timestamp or supplied flag represents before interpreting the result.

How to use Religious Title Style and understand its results

Prepare the text, recorded observations, aligned figures or editorial criteria requested. Confirm what each label, count, timestamp or supplied flag represents before interpreting the result.
Enter religiousTitle, personName, renderedReference, includeTitle using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read expectedReference, matchesExpected. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
religiousTitle	Religious title	string	Required
personName	Person name	string	Required
renderedReference	Rendered reference	string	Required
includeTitle	Include title	boolean	Required

Enter title, nonblank name, required flag and rendered text. Trim all strings and return expected text plus exact match flag. A blank title is accepted.

expected=requireTitle ? trim(title)+space+trim(name) : trim(name)

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
expectedReference	Expected reference	string
matchesExpected	Matches expected reference	boolean

json

{
  "input": {
    "religiousTitle": "Rabbi",
    "personName": "Avery Cohen",
    "renderedReference": "Rabbi Avery Cohen",
    "includeTitle": true
  },
  "output": {
    "expectedReference": "Rabbi Avery Cohen",
    "matchesExpected": true
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No religious office, denomination or publication-specific style rule is established.

Numeric inputs must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Extremely large text inputs are rejected. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors. A successfully returned false flag is an evaluated outcome; its meaning is explained above.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Royalty Title Style: Validate a rendered royal reference against supplied title-use policy. For a complementary task, use Military Rank Style: Validate a military-rank reference against supplied full or abbreviated form.

References

Religious Title Style — tool.io

Similar or alternative tools

Royalty Title Style
Validate a rendered royal reference against supplied title-use policy.
Military Rank Style
Validate a military-rank reference against supplied full or abbreviated form.