[sword-devel] Offline Bible

[David Haslam]

Hi Nathan,

I missed seeing this reply of yours until today.

Yes please send me the .mdb file, but wrapped within a ZIP file, to guard
against corruption by email clients.

Though my Acer Notebook doesn't have MS Access installed, I should be able
to open it with MDB Viewer Plus from Alex Nolan Software.

David



Nathan Kitchen-3 wrote:
> 
> Hi David.
> 
> I think I've still got the Access database if you would like a copy? It's
> basically a verse table containing lines of what I think is RTF formatted
> text. It has KJV text with Strong's numbers. Not sure where the author
> sourced it from, probably Crosswire. To be honest, I found it a real pain
> to
> work with so I converted it to my own XML format. I've got that to hand,
> and
> it is attached. I'll have to dig the mdb off my work laptop, will have a
> look for it tomorrow for you.
> I'll make it an open licence once I feel like the code is structured a bit
> more cleanly (recommendation? GPL?), though there's not really anything to
> stop you just downloading the JS files from the server by following links
> and then hosting it yourself : ) The only server-side magic is the gzip
> compression.
> 
> Let me know if you still want the mdb after looking at the XML.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:41 PM, David Haslam
> <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>wrote:
> 
>>
>> I just installed it in Firefox 3.0.14 under Windows XP, along with Google
>> Gears.
>>
>> The navigation method is novel, and makes a refreshing change from
>> dropdown
>> menus or trees of folders.
>>
>> Looks promising! This is my personal view - other CrossWire volunteers
>> will
>> form their own opinions.
>>
>> What license will it be distributed under?
>>
>> Do you have more information regarding the provenance of the KJV source
>> text
>> data?
>> "(sourced from an MS Access db I dug up on an FTP site a few years ago)"
>>
>> David Haslam
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