RE: Quran data (translations)

["Maher Ben Moussa" <maher_dev at hotmail dot com>]

Sorry that I didn't react on it before. You're right, It is an important
issue. But I don't think I can help much, because I wasn't involved by
the xml files. I just sent an email to Mohammed Yousif about this issue.
I hope he will react soon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ahmed El Helw 
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 12:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Quran data (translations)
> 
> 
> salam alaikum --
> i think a much more important issue is the accuracy of the
> arabic text itself -- when half of several ayats are missing,
> this is a BIG issue and a BIG problem.  how can people use any
> software powered by this library if the arabic xml files
> themselves are incomplete?  i posted many various posts about
> different ayahs that were incomplete and have not gotten any
> replies nor has anyone made an attempt to fix them.  the
> presence of complete arabic text can help in other things - for
> example, if we have correct arabic text, writing a program that
> 'syntax highlights' things based on tajweed is quite possible
> and would be beautiful if done -- and is easy, but how can it be
> done when the arabic itself has incompleteness in it?
> walsalam alaikum,
> -ahmed