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Subject: [cfaussie] Best way to do a
glossary
Hi all,
I have been lurking for a while and
getting the benefit of your wisdom. This is my first post.
I need to put a glossary of reproductive
terms on my website. The simple way would be to make a table, put the term in
one field and the definition in another, search and display as
needed.
However, I want to be able to make some
words bold, some italic, and some hyperlinks to other terms. Here is a sample
definition...
abdominal
pregnancy
An ectopic pregnancy located in the
peritoneal cavity, or abdomen, usually having undergone
implantation in the fallopian tube as a tubal pregnancy,
then continuing to grow after the tube eventually ruptures. Rare in countries
with ready access to medical care, as considerable symptoms have to have been
ignored (and survived) during the tubal rupture part of the process. The
fetus can grow almost to full term, but delivery of a live
baby (delivered by operation) has never been reported. Sometimes (fancifully)
thought of as a way men might bear children!
The
underlined words are hyperlinks that would open their own
definitions.
There are probably close to 1000 definitions in
all.
What is the best way to go about this? I thought that I
could store the definitions in the database as html code. I also wondered
whether this would be something you could do in XML (although I haven't done
anything with XML before). All suggestions very welcome, but please remember I
an a newbie and need clear instructions.
TIA
Tom MacKean
Copywriter/Designer
SIVF
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