Troy pointed out a lot of complexities I hadn't thought about - of
finding verses in Bibles of different languages with different structures.
Also, they already have all the formatting worked out, showing &
hiding features, and unicode.
The big issue in my mind has been how we can access this code from a
web browser, and I'm still not sure how to do that.
But we clearly do want to use the Crosswire engine for the Bible, and
possibly add other databases into it.
One of us needs to get under the hood of Crosswire and figure out how
to get APIs which a web interface can use.
Troy suggested there'd be guys in the developers' forum who'd help,
if we can frame the question properly.
Chris, could you make a start on this?
Please could you have a look at the C++ engine, on one platform, and
find out what you can about the database structure,
and start to look into the problem of how to access it from within a browser.
A suitable question on the developers' forum may produce some useful answers.
David, could you also familiarise yourself with the web version of
the Crosswire project?
We need to find:
* how does the webpage access the Crosswire engine, and can we
duplicate that with a downloaded version?
* what are the capabilities of the datasets available? We need to
know very well what IS available, so that we know what is NOT
available which we might have to produce ourselves.
I'll be interested to know what you find!
Please tell me if you are unhappy with what I'm asking - I don't want
to ask you to do things which you aren't interested in.
Also, keep a note of the time you spend. When I get back in the
office I'll fax you a timesheet so you can claim your pittance of 7
UKP per hour. I know you are worth much more!
David IB
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