On Dec 1, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Simon Kittle wrote:
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>
If you want to start research, start collecting *real world* examples
on http://microformats.org/wiki/book-reference-examples (or http://
microformats.org/wiki/bible-reference-examples, if you just want to
cover those).
-ryan
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Ryan King
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