Map Of London

More work on CodeSharing

mholmes — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:31:31 +0000

Fixed some bugs and cleaned up some XQuery and XSLT.

New MoEML app deployed

mholmes — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:31:01 +0000

Took several restarts of Tomcat and various apps, then intervention by sysadmin to increase the number of files a process can open; now we have much higher speed on all apps.

eXist trunk bug reported and fixed

mholmes — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:47:43 +0000

My contention about the change to docUtils.java having caused a regression which broke relative paths for the doc() function was borne out after I changed the file and rebuilt. Reported the bug formally on the bugtracker, and it is now fixed, so I have a fresh trunk build of eXist ready to go for MoEML. I'll deploy this first thing tomorrow before anyone else gets to work.

Various tweaks to XSLT and CSS

mholmes — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:05:27 +0000

Following a meeting at which we discussed strategy, and decided to focus for now on the Mayoral Pageants, worked with KMF on a range of minor display and rendering issues for primary source documents, including bylines, marginal labels, and text indents.

Beginning of tutorial for primary source encoding

mholmes — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:25:22 +0000

Started a tutorial based on SNOW1 (for the moment), and in the process of writing the first bit of it, came up against many annoyances in the rendering of egXML blocks; fixed those rendering issues (in three places, site, redesign, and codesharing. Grrr).

Added handling for dramatic text tags

mholmes — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:21:48 +0000

Added rendering handling for sp, speaker, and p within sp. The stage tag isn't handled yet. Rolled out changes both to site and to redesign codebases.

Troubleshooting: encoded title page of SNOW1, found and fixed rendering bug

mholmes — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:31:49 +0000

Since SNOW1 was a bit of a mess at the beginning, because of the encoders following obsolete examples, I've manually encoded the title page as an example.

Also found a problem with METR1 which was not really a bug, nor an encoding invalidity: a body element which goes straight to content (e.g. a head) with no intervening div is not invalid, but it triggered rendering problems because it was completely unexpected. As it happens, the encoding should not have been that way -- other divs appear later in the body -- but it wasn't technically wrong, so it would be good to figure out a way to prevent this through the schema or more likely through Schematron. We could change the content model of body so that it can only have divs, of course.

Fixes and updates

mholmes — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:18:22 +0000

Did some tasks from yesterday and some new ones:

Files that used have now been converted to
s. (The only exception is stow_1633, which probably does need .)
XSLT rendering has been updated to handle this.
Extra stray copies of METR1 have been identified in the db and removed. These were causing errors in the redesign pipeline.

Meeting and tasks

mholmes — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:56:07 +0000

I have these tasks coming out of the team meeting today:

DONE: Fix rendering of org popups.
DONE: Add Schematron constraint for malformed Julian dates.
DONE: Fix rendering of persNames with genName and roleName in them.
DONE (for group elements): Make a list of files containing group elements, and other bad old code.
DONE: Transform files with group elements into nested divs.
Add an attribute value parameter to the CodeSharing interface (will have to be done after July, probably).
Add handling for @style on list, along with documentation for it, change existing usage of list/@type to @style, then remove list/@type from schema.
DONE: Look at forme works in SNOW1 and figure out why they're not rendering properly.
Collapse the myth and fict personography types to a single type "lit". This will involve both data and rendering and must be done simultaneously.
Add rendering for sp, speaker and stage for SNOW1.
In redesign (with Pat): make page credits work like page TOC (pop-out rather than long list).

eXist build script

mholmes — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:01:20 +0000

I've spent the whole day working on getting a more flexible and successful build system for eXist. This is what I've added to Greg's script:

It now checks for the presence of Saxon and warns if it's not available.
It checks for three XSLT files, and in each case, if the file is there, it transforms a target file in the build tree. These are for conf.xml.tmpl, mime-types.xml.tmpl, and controller-config.xml. This should allow us to set up build environments for each of our specific projects.
It excludes XML Calabash and includes FOP. The former was blocking the build because its download location is down.

Found a number of problems with eXist, which I've reported, including a bad one once the webapp is running: you can no longer call transform:transform with a relative path to the XSLT file, otherwise you get an error. A full path from /db seems to work.