Greg Hellings wrote:
I could almost swear that there is support in at least some front ends
already for linking from a <scripRef> entity. Doesn't Bibletime
support that? I thought that it was working this summer when I was
working with several ThML texts. Maybe I was thinking of some one of
the prototype implementations we were working with. Implementation in
the RTF-based BibleCS, though...? I've never tried it.
In an earlier discussion on Strongs it was noted that Strongs often
references other entries in its work, but that Sword did not support
internal linking from one dictionary entry to another. I may have
misunderstood, but based on this I doubt that there is support for links
to anything but a Bible, Strongs or Robinsons.
According to http://www.ccel.org/ThML/ThML1.04.htm
<scripRef> is used for a reference to scripture and not a general
purpose reference.
ThML uses <a> as an HTML anchor to other documents and also provides
<sync type="" value=""> for cross-references. My guess is that support
for these is limited. In the case of <a> the url would need to be
decoded to understand it as a module reference, probably introducing a
new protocol. In the case of sync the type attribute is unconstrained
and essentially requires an application to interpret the value in its
context (eg type=Strongs). I don't know if this has been defined as a
module reference.
Turning to OSIS the possibilities are better. OSIS defines the
<reference osisRef=""> element where the osisRef can refer to an
external work. An osisRef contains a workid if it refers to another
document. I don't know the level of support for this element, other than
how JSword handles it.
At this time JSword assumes that the osisRef does not contain a workid
and that it refers to a passage in the user's current working Bible.
This is not proper usage, but we have not found situations in the
available modules which have other kinds of references.
--Greg
On 2/8/06, *Barry Drake* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi there .........
Some of us are doing a feasibility study on the NET bible from
http://www.bible.org/ with a view to offering a Sword module. The NET
bible comes with a massive set of footnotes. In the present
incarnation
of Sword (certainly in the Windows front end) the use of such
extensive
footnoting would make the version difficult to follow. There are
often
many footnotes in a single verse.
One solution, suggested I think by Chris Little was to make the front
end capable of displaying footnotes in a separate window from the
bible
text. An alternative is to make the notes into a commentary module,
with the footnotes in the text neing represented by footnote numbers.
If this second alternative were considered, is it possible to link
these
footnote numbers to the commentary window? What I'm looking for is
linking that looks up tags in commentaries like scripture references
embedded in a commentary - as an example - <scripRef>John
1:3</scripRef>
in a ThML tagged commentary.
Do we have provision for this in the filters?
God bless,
Barry
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