On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:21, Riyad Preukschas wrote: > Assalamu Alaikum, > > > That's fine if we have a lot (and I mean a LOT) of people willing to do > > that, but it's simply a LOT of work. > > I understand that it's a good idea to do this but do we really need it? > > At least some of it. I would appreciate it a lot if there would be any > information about the author or the used source in that file. > Or at least: > - "version" and "lang" or "language" attributes > - separate sura name transliterations and translations (i.e. separate > "name" and "translation" attributes in a sura element). > - rename the ayat numbering attribute from "id" to something like "nr" > or "no", because it is confusing because the "id" attributes are meant > to be unique per file.
That's fair. > - recitation breakpoint indicators (U+06D6 to U+06DB) > I don't think they are really needed as (as you said) it's really clear that they are from (U+06D6 to U+06DB) so why not letting the machine detect them rather than telling it that the character 06D6 is from the group (U+06D6 to U+06DB) and thus is a stop sign (fen wednak ya goha :-) > > I mean if it's an XSLT application, I would totally agree but it's not > > and I don't mind postponing most of the functionality to the c/c++ code > > instead of doing it in the XML file (especially if we are talking about > > the Qur'an). > > I think indications for where ALLAH is referred to in the Quran text > belong into the file (especially because it differs in every source). Or > make the user know that the translator made a comment to a translated > piece of text. > Not sure if I can understand that, could you please clarify a bit more :-) > But more useful for the user. > I don't think these files were meant for "playing with them a bit". > I think it's better for developers to have the possibility to provide as > much information about the source as possible. > That's right. > I've never talked about the number of verse per chapter. > I thought of including the sajda element, because as far as i can > remember there are sajdas in the Quran which are not at the not at the > end of the ayat. So you can mark the passage where the sajda should be > done and not only the whole ayat. > Hmm, I meant only the verse number, but yes again you are absolutely right here. > > Anyway, if you can come up with a much simpler XML structure that doesn't > > need a lot of ork, I would appreciate it. > > I did, but the things I mentioned at the top of this mail are still > included: > http://www.includeme.ma.cx/kuran/drafts/quran_2_sp_draft.xml > and if this is still too complex then look at this: > http://www.includeme.ma.cx/kuran/drafts/quran_2_rsp_draft.xml > > I think I like the first one but again I don't see any need for the <br> tag (The machine can do that, why let humans do it?) Much Thanks for your work, I think I will implement this but I would like first to hear from Damt(Are you still there) and Maher (Hi guys I'm not working on this project alone, I simply can't. Come on, SHOW UP NOW :-) _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
