Thread: Proposal: Extending Epub with reference book tags
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Old 06-04-2009, 03:15 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by jgray View Post
Nice idea, but we still need whatever method is used to be included in the standard, so we have interoperability. Also, a set of tags specifically for dictionary markup is needed.
Yes and no. Do you really think anyone will want to write code that actually makes use of all the XDXF tags? I'm not so sure. Remember, the tags aren't absolutely necessary simply to have the information. If you want the information, you can use XHTML and simply add it as text.

I do think XDXF should be considered as an extension to Epub-after it achieves 1.0 status.

If we adopt this position as part of the proposal, then the current set of tags won't need to duplicate all or even most of the abilities of XDXF. Instead, we can look at this project as a set reference tags, not dictionary tags.

BTW, the set of tags I show here are enough to provide dictionary lookup similar to Mobipocket.
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