I (re)came across a couple bible specifications this morning while browsing around. The first was STEP (Standard Template for Electronic Publishing) which is described at http://www.crosswire.org/bsisg/. This, however, looks like a royal pain with lots of references to RTF. Yuck!.
More promising is the OSIS standard which I have mentioned before. This is an XML standard which makes it a lot more promising. Talking a second look at this I notice there are several more tools which look promising. The most interesting of these is the open source SWORD project, which is Bible software presumably similar to what we are creating. Unfortunately, attempts to get this running again on my computer failed but I need to figure out what the problem is in order to take a look at what progress has been made.
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