Hi, So, I have read a bit on the wiki and can't find an answer to the above question so I thought I'd post it. What I'd like is a way to reference specific sections of a book down to chapter, paragraph, verse, etc.
Actually, what I'm after is a specific instance of this (funnily enough it doesn't seem that the more general case would be much use) in that I want a scheme / microformat for specifying Bible versse or passages. Bible verses are obviously well referenced in both online and offline world but there isn't a defacto standard for marking them up. (that I could find, anyone?) It's definitely a cowpath in the sense that Bible verses are quoted all over the web (so qualifies for the term microformat in that sense) on Christian sites but also on many a blog, news sites - anywhere there is a chance of the Bible being mentioned. It's common for people to quote Bible verses in part, giving the reference along side so a way to know it is a Bible reference and automatically look up the appropriate verse, previous and next, etc, etc would be a valueable tool. Also, often when verses are quoted in full there is often need to view / access different translations, etc so there would be some extremely useful applications that could use such a scheme as well as the general advantages that always come with marking something up semantically. It wouldn't take a lot I don't think, something along the lines of class="BibleRef" would probably suffice making the following possible: <span class="BibleRef">Psalm 46:10</span> <abbr class="BibleRef" title="Psalm 46:10">Ps 46:10</abbr> Thoughts? - Simon _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
