[sword-devel] Importan Issue: Crossreferences

[Joachim Ansorg]

Am Mon, 28 Aug 2000 schrieben Sie:
> Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> > ...
> > IMHO this is a very important issue for SWORD and frontends like
> > BibleTime. I have much requests from users of BibleTime that we should
> > implement support for bible crossreferences.
> > Basically we have it, but SWORD and BibleTime are missing two important
> > things:
> >
> >         -A standard in modules how crossreferences should be formatted.
> > At the moment every module uses it's one reference formats (GBF, RAW
> > etc.). This is the most important issue. Otherwise we would have to add
> > time wasting regexp mattching things etc. and every frontend has to
> > implement it's own solutions. It's not good not to have a standard for
> > crossreferences.
> >
> >         -A standard how the crossreferences should be formatted as HTML
> > (generated by the GBFHTML and PLAINGHTML filters) and how they should
> > look like in PLAIN formatted text etc.
> > In BibleTime we use as a quick hack the following syntax (as an example):
> >
> > <A HREF="ref://Genesis 1:1">Reference to Genesis 1:1</A>
> >
> > Is there somewhere a crossreference standard on the internet? If yes,
> > should we use it?
>
> Use ThML - it's all worked out for you.
>
> Use ThML.  Use ThML.  Use ThML.  Use ThML.  Use ThML.  Use ThML.  This
> is not a recording.
>
> :-)

Sure, ThML is possible. But we have a HTML widget in BibleTime, and somehow 
the filters like ThML2HTML have to work.
And only a few modules are using ThML.
Other solutions?

--Joachim