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Dictionary.app
I decided to hack Dictionary.app and see how it worked. It uses a stylesheet called DefaultStyle.css with all kinds of markup I've never before seen the likes of. For example:
o|ent { font-family:'Baskerville';font-weight:normal; font-size:medium; display: block; margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em; margin-left: -13px; margin-bottom: 1.0em; }
It uses this 'o' object a lot and then I checked up on the namespaces referenced in the top of the document:
@namespace html url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @namespace o url(http://oup.dataformat.com/doc/OUP_DTD_Dictionary.html);
Apparently you can namespace objects dynamically! ...I had no idea!
Anyway, checking out that page resulted in a format that seemed ripe for some dl|dt|dd microformat love:
<entry type="subject" sortkey="sortkeyhere" status="Active" title="noad:1.01" entry="0" stage="1"> <meta> ... </meta> <hwGrp> ... <hwGrp> <senseBlock> <meta> ... </meta> <prelim> ... </prelim> <sense> <meta> ... </meta> ... </sense> </senseBlock> </entry>
Since much of the work has already been done and there's a decent use case for this kind of app, I was wondering if we might be able to take the data that's already available and see what a mF could do for it -- y'know, to be able to offer real world app conversion documentation?