Project meeting, and some decisions
Posted by mholmes on 03 Dec 2009 in Activity log
Team meeting today -- my notes:
- All the Cabinet Satyrique transcriptions are now drawn from the version of the anthology which doesn't have satirical publication info. That's a blessing. The old ones will be updated from the new transcriptions. LCC is doing that now.
- The newer, clearer biblio info in the header of the first Cabinet poem to be updated threw up some weaknesses in the XSLT processing the table of contents, and also raised again the problem of mixed content in teasers not being rendered in the right order (an XQuery issue). I've now solved both of those problems; the one was a simple XPath fix, and the other I solved by trying a solution that failed in the old db version but now works; my original XQuery solution is vindicated. Mixed content now works in teasers.
- Footnotes from the 19th-century anthology should be marked up in the same way as our own editorial footnotes, but distinguished from them by some appropriate introductory text which specifies their source.
- Decisions on exactly how the modernized texts should be used in Search are still pending; there are various problems there, which we discussed. In the meantime, though, if there is a modern version of a text, a link to it should be provided in the XHTML view of the document. This will require some re-organization of the db structure, and rewriting of XQuery, so that normal queries and document listings don't retrieve both copies.
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