I've posted a proposal for POSH to identify reference to Bible passages. An overview of the proposal is at http://www.semanticbible.com/bibleref/bibleref-overview.html: the bottom line is my suggestion to use a format like this:
<!-- marked-up text can be parsed, so no further markup is required --> <cite class="bibleref">John 3:16</abbr> <!-- marked-up text can't be easily parsed, so the title attribute is used to indicate the reference --> <a href=" http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%203:16"; class="bibleref" title="John 3:16">the third chapter of John's Gospel, verse 16</abbr> Etc. I see there was a thread on this at http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-December/0021 87.html some time ago, but I don't see any resolution. I'd like to hear any comments from the list before pushing this farther along. This was spawned by some recent posts (see http://mattdabbs.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/most-blogged-scriptures/) where somebody was trying to estimate the number of blog posts on different passages by string search (which, as you'd expect, only works imperfectly). Given the thousands of blog posts referencing Bible verses, this seems like a ripe area for some attempts to define a standard. Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
