HCMC Blogs

As my first contract comes to an end, here is a summary of the status of all the files we have worked on. I have also added explanatory comments at the top of each active file.

In the tei_xml folder:

c-rtr.xml - completed and posted on database website

h-phar-part1.xml - completed by SMK. ECH needs to check phonemicizations and hyphs, but might as well wait ' til part2 is completed too.

h-phar-part2_xformed.xml - ready to edit. MDH has completed the latest XSLT transformation. Future editors, please look out for missing entries as you continue to edit this file! It could have had the same data loss problems that qw-glot and other files had.

An old copy of h-phar.xml is currently posted on the database site, but that was a mistake.

h.xml - completed and posted on database website

lex-suf-new.xml - contains entries I created for 4 lexical suffixes which could not be found in the main lex-suff.xml folder. We subsequently realized that many lexical suffix cards had never been entered into the Lexware database, so the next step here is to enter the rest of those cards. Then, if further lexical suffixes are still unaccounted-for, we can create new entries for them.

phar-w.xml - completed and posted on database website

qw-glot.xml- edited by SMK as far as line 469, whereupon I discovered many missing lines and entries. This problem occurred during the transformation from the "unmerged" version to the "entries_separated" version. ECH is trying to deduce what went wrong, and will post details on the blog.

s-rtr.xml - completed and posted on database website

In the tei_for_xform folder:

affix_test.xml - a small file with a copy of one entry from the main affix.xml file, made for MDH to test the following XSLT transformation on

affix.xml
-MDH needs to adapt the most recent XSLT transformation to format the dictegs in this file as follows:
-add <phr type="p" subtype="u"> </phr> at the top of each <quote>
-surround *'d words with <gloss> tags
-move bibls up from quotes to their daughter <phr type="n">s and <seg>s.

-Then ECH and SMK need to: proofread against MDK cards from line 1870, phonemicize throughout, check questions in Comment tags.

lex-suf.xml
-MDH needs to use his XSLT transformation to reformat the dictegs. (SMK has formatted the form and sense/def sections manually.)
-ECH or SMK need to phonemicize all the examples.
-This file still needs to be checked against the Lexware printout.
-ECH needs to check SMK's work.
-The file needs to be proofed against MDK's cards, and the missing lexical suffixes need to be entered, as noted above.

In the ready-to-edit folder:

All files - MDH has completed the latest XSLT transformation, but more research is needed regarding data that was lost in the earlier transformation from "unmerged" versions to "entries_separated" versions. ECH is trying to deduce what went wrong, and will post details on the blog.

Spent most of the day writing the map browser for our collection of 219 maps. I have it basically working, in a way that's similar to the Mariage site (but much simpler from a CSS point of view). I haven't yet got the Previous and Next buttons working -- in fact, it'll probably be a bit more sophisticated than that, allowing the user to decide how many maps to view on one page, etc. But the basics are all done, including some complicated bits to lay out the variously-sized thumbnails in an even manner on the page.

1) go to http://www.uvic.ca/systems/loginspasswords/secondarynetlinkid/
2) click on Online form, which takes you to https://helpdesk.uvic.ca/tools/index.php?next_page=netlink/secondary.php
3) authenticate
4) fill in form.

Obviously can't post any details...

The results for this file were not exactly what we wanted -- some copies of bibl elements were not being made -- so I've revisited the transformation, and I think it's now done correctly. Waiting for SK to confirm.

Leaving early...

The identifiers for the RG7 images differ slightly from the format of the CO ones, in that the central component (G8C in this case) cannot be reduced to an integer, so when I uploaded these images I had to tweak a bit of XQuery to make the image browser display them properly.

My previous little demo app came up against a huge roadblock when any reference to a QTreeWidget would cause an application crash with a segmentation fault. As far as I can see, this was not due to anything in my code, so eventually I went back to the drawing board and rewrote the app using the UI designer in QT Creator. This is now working (parsing an XML string into a DOM tree and displaying it in a QTreeWidget). Something in the process of creating the QTreeWidget in the UI class seems to protect against the seg fault.

I'm now working on having the app build an index of xml:id attributes, from a persistent DOM model, and figure out how easy it is to keep the index and the DOM model aligned.