Closed (fixed)
Project:
Glossary
Version:
6.x-1.3
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Code
Priority:
Normal
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Feature request
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Created:
7 May 2008 at 06:18 UTC
Updated:
1 Oct 2008 at 15:14 UTC
The <cite> element contains a citation or a reference to other sources. If you have lots of quotations being used all through your site it might be nice to benefit from the pop-up nature of glossary and also list these sources on a separate page.
Well in my case it certainly would.
Would it be reasonable to include the cite element as an alternative to abbr and others offered presently by the module?
cite spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-text.html#sec_9.2.
Comments
Comment #1
nancydruCertainly it can be done rather simply. However, I tried the examples given in your reference (both IE7 and FF2) and see no value to using the cite element; there was no pop-up or even a link provided. Perhaps you have some reasoning beyond what I see in that reference.
Is this in association with the Quotes module?
Comment #2
nancydruComment #3
fletchgqc commentedSorry, I didn't mean you to find pop-ups on the page I linked to. Rather I meant that on that page you can read what the cite element is meant to be used for and thereby determine whether that is a worthy element to allow in your module.
This is nothing to do with the quotes module.
In my personal situation, I am building a Christian web site and the correct markup for Bible references is like:
I would like to use Glossary to list the words of the verse Luke 3:22 (and the other 200 Bible references on the site) to thereby give pop-ups with the full wording of the verse.
Besides other people in my exact situation, it is possible that others might like to cite the same external references repeatedly throughout their site and have them listed on a glossary page, instead of listing the full information of that source in footnotes on every page that refers to it. Therefore I propose that it might be a worthy addition and as you point out - very easy to add in.
Comment #4
nancydruI knew what "cite" is for; I use it in the Quotes module. But acronym or abbr would have worked just as well. Now you get to start adding all those verses to a glossary vocabulary. I'd like to see it when you get farther along.
Committed to the -dev version (rolls up around midnight GMT).
Comment #5
Anonymous (not verified) commentedAutomatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
Comment #6
fletchgqc commentedHi Nancy. In the end we discovered that manually entering every scripture into the taxonomy was a major effort. So we sought an automated solution to parse the site and also parse an entire bible and fill up the taxonomy with the content for the relevant verses.
Then we realised that it would be simpler to stick the whole Bible into the database and write our own glossary-inspired input filter to recognise Bible references and pull the content out of the DB. So... without further ado... here is the website as promised: Christian Assemblies International. Look for the dark red words.
Am just marking this active so you catch it.
Comment #7
nancydruLooks great, thanks. I'd love to be able to do something like this for my church. I just don't want the KJV.
Comment #8
fletchgqc commentedYeah getting the bible into the DB is the tricky bit. Then there are the copyright issues for non-KJV bibles.