The journal system allows for many different contribution types, specified through the @rend attribute on the <TEI> tag, and constrained by a customization of the schema. I've never actually used these before, but the latest contribution being a "Lab notes" item, HM asked that this fact be made noticeable on the page somewhere, so I implemented a system which supplies an absolutely-positioned contribution type label, based on XSLT string variables. Four document types are handled in the XSLT, although there are string variables for all the variants. The default "Note" is overridden in the user stylesheet in the db, and reads "Lab notes" as per the IALLT Journal requirements.

In the process, I fixed an annoying IE JavaScript error, resulting from the fact that IE doesn't support hasAttribute.