Xiphos displayed stuff from the example OSIS header as follows:
(the asterisks are where bold was used for title elements)

Merged separate OSIS XML files into a single file using a bespoke
TextPipe Standard filter, with changes made to meet the requirements
for osis2mod. Developed by David Haslam, CrossWire Bible Society.
2006-07-29
Converted from TEX into OSIS by bibleTec2osis.pl
Lai (Hakha) Version
Myanmar Bible Software Bible Bible.cnh.Hakha.2005 cnh Copyright 2005
Myanmar Bible Society Bible Bible Bible Bible Genesis

NB. The title Genesis is part of the module proper.

Aside:

In my OSIS header example, there are two revisionDesc elements, each with a date.
The first date was not displayed for no obvious reason. Maybe this is just an "off-by-one" error.

I mention this only as an aside, as the quirky behaviour would be irrelevant if the header was properly excluded.

David

Module makers beginning from USFM source text would not have encountered this s/w bug.

usfm2osis.pl outputs only a rudimentary header, just sufficient to validate the XML file to the OSIS schema.

e.g.

<header>
<work osisWork="belarusian"/>
</header>

The reason that text within an OSIS header should be excluded is obvious! Most of the text is "meta data".
The appropriate place for such meta data is in the conf file.

Apart from that, what was included in my example also looks very messy.

Fixed a long time ago. Here is part of the output with -d 512:
DEBUG(FOUND): Found first div and pitching prior material: <xml encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0"><osis xmlns="http://www.bibletechnologies.net/2003/OSIS/namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bibletechnologies.net/2003/OSIS/namespace http://www.bibletechnologies.net/osisCore.2.1.1.xsd"> <osisText osisIDWork="thisWork" osisRefWork="defaultReferenceScheme" xml:lang="en"> <header> <revisionDesc><date>2011-11-11</date> <div sID="gen1" type="x-p"/> Merged separate OSIS XML files into a single file using a bespoke TextPipe Standard filter, with changes made to meet the requirements for osis2mod. Developed by David Haslam, CrossWire Bible Society. <div eID="gen1" type="x-p"/> </revisionDesc> <revisionDesc><date>2006-07-29</date> <div sID="gen2" type="x-p"/>Converted from TEX into OSIS by bibleTec2osis.pl <div eID="gen2" type="x-p"/> </revisionDesc> <work osisWork="thisWork"> <title>Lai (Hakha) Version</title> <creator role="encoder">Myanmar Bible Software</creator> <type type="OSIS">Bible</type> <identifier type="OSIS">Bible.cnh.Hakha.2005</identifier> <language type="SIL">cnh</language> <rights type="x-copyright">Copyright 2005 Myanmar Bible Society</rights> <scope>Bible</scope> <refSystem>Bible</refSystem> </work> <work osisWork="bible"> <type type="OSIS">Bible</type> <refSystem>Bible</refSystem> </work> </header>