Sean Boisen wrote:
Thanks for pointing out that work, Andy. Existing and well-established
practice in citing Bible passages is rather different from most of these:
* Book (of the Bible, e.g. Isaiah or Is.), chapter and verse designators are
the most common: "Is 40:6" would be a typical case.
* Sometimes a specific translation is referenced, usually with an
abbreviation: e.g. "KJV" for the King James Version.
* Fields like author, publication date, publisher, volume, etc. simply
aren't used for 99% of the cases: that's not what people care about when
citing Bible passages.
So I'm not sure whether it's appropriate for me to add these examples to the
wiki pages: thoughts?
Bible citations are not a unique case. Citations from ancient texts
(especially other holy books, and classical and medieval texts) and
plays often use similar formats, e.g.:
/Sūra/ 18, v. 45
/Plat/, Charm. 173 E3
/Ovid/, Amores 3.1.15
/2 Henry IV/, IV. ii. 8
I think one reason for such conventions is that such texts represent
manuscript traditions rather than being defined by a single edition.
Along with other specialised formats (e.g. legal citations), hCite needs
to at least think about handling all of these.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Mabbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [uf-new] proposed semantic HTML for Bible references
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
I've posted a proposal for POSH to identify reference to Bible
passages.
Please note the ongoing work at:
<http://microformats.org/wiki/citation>
et seq.
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