[sword-devel] HELP! Need your feedback on XML Markup Language

Jerry Hastings sword-devel@crosswire.org
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:11:05 -0700


At 04:16 AM 8/17/2001 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

>Yes, but remember this is for technical meta markup of Biblical texts, a
>'"' character ignores any meta information.  Ideally, a quote might
>actually have all kinds of attributes:
>
><Verse>Text for <Quote SPEAKER="John" AUDIENCE="Jane"
>HISTORICAL_PRESENT="yes">a verse</Quote></Verse><Verse><Quote>text for
>the </Quote>next verse</Verse>

If one quote starts where another ends, couldn't the meta info indicate 
that it is a continuation?

Jerry