Whiteboard/PersistentKeyList

Goal:

Robust definition of a persistent key list that could be used for:

• Bookmarks
• Topic Tagging
• Study notes, comments and other annotations
• History navigation
• Application state restoration

Definitions:

(Please correct if you have a better definition)

Key: Unique string used to locate content in a file or data structure e.g. Topic, Reference, Date, Word or Strong's number

Reference: Key used to access verse content in a Bible module, usually in format: <book>\s<chapter>:<verse> e.g. "Gen 1:2"

Range (Ref.): Key used to access a contiguous set of verses usually of the format: <book>\s<chapter>:<verse>[\-[<book>\s]<chapter>:]<verse> e.g. "Gen 1:1-3" or "Gen 1:1-3:1"

Verse: Content retrieved from a Bible using a single Reference. e.g. "In the beginning..."

Passage: Content of a contiguous set of Bible verses using a Range as the Key. e.g. "In the beginning... ...God said it was good".

Bookmark: An N-tree hierarchical structure where nodes can be either a Topic or a Reference

VerseList: A list of References with a Topic as the Key