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Dear all,<br>
<br>
I've been investigating for the last two weeks about creating a
small open repository under the OpenScriptures banner for storing and
maintaining (and even documenting) XML lists of versification schemes
and international booknames, versification mappings, USFM and OSIS
booknames and abbreviations, etc. I've already received a positive
response from the author of Bibledit about starting with some of his
lists. I realise that any particular format will never please everyone,
but I'm interested in your comments on it's potential usefulness. I
found that I needed such things personally for a project so rather than
reinventing them yet again, I figured that every Bible program must
need them so why not make them available (if they're not already).<br>
<br>
I guess my questions are:<br>
<blockquote>1/ Are these sorts of lists already freely available in a
suitable place (preferably independent of a particular program)? If so,
no need for me to proceed.<br>
Assuming they're not:<br>
2/ Where might the information be gleaned from (with suitable
permissions)?<br>
3/ Apart from the above (versification schemes & mappings,
USFM/OSIS booknames/filename/abbreviation standards, international
booknames/abbreviations), what other lists do you suggest might be
useful?<br>
4/ Would your program be interested in taking advantage of such XML
lists?<br>
5/ If not, would another format be helpful?<br>
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Blessings,<br>
Robert.<br>
<br>
On 01/10/10 21:56, David Haslam wrote:
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I have a strong hunch that John Austin must have had to construct such a
mapping for <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/p/xulsword/">http://code.google.com/p/xulsword/</a> xulsword .
His <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ibt.org.ru/english/bible/info_bible_en.htm">http://www.ibt.org.ru/english/bible/info_bible_en.htm</a> MK application
for IBT supports seamless transition between KJV and RST v11ns, albeit for
just the 66 protocanonical books.
It may therefore be useful to examine the source code for xulsword, to see
if this includes the relevant XML file for such a mapping.
David
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