At Dot Porter's request, I did a stripped-down version of our CASTA 2006 workshop on styling XML with CSS for the DHSI workshop group. Took a little while digging out handouts and printing ahead of time.
June 21, 2007
Finished marking up the latest article, and posted it on the site. One oddity: it has abbreviations, which we usually handle through an automatic system, but because the expansions are things such as document titles which need styling, they can't be expressed in an @expan attribute; that means I had to do them manually. This would be better in P5, because <expan> is a tag in P5.
Hello Martin.
I'm delighted that Mike chatted with you at lunch: he's now working away on the mariage corpus (with minimal help from me). I'll learn something watching him, and we can take away some potentiallly interesting results. Not only did I begin the course as the person with the least knowledge of text analysis, I was in and out because of other meetings. It's so nice to be able to end the week on a positive note thanks to Mike.
While working with the site, I've noticed some little glitches. 3 titles aren't displaying correctly in the thumbnails: "Arrest d'amour", "Espines" and "Purgatoire"-- the longest ones.
It also occurs to me that La Gazette Francoise should be eliminated from the site for the time being: there isn't enough text in it to be significant.
I hope we'll have something interesting to show you after the course, though!
Cheers,
Claire
I have completed adding the fckeditor to the following pages of the Philosophy Website: Index, news, staff, employment, new courses, events, summer courses, undergraduate program, graduate program, applied ethics, awards, faq, contact us, resources, and sophia. Users who are logged into the website will be able to use the fckeditor to edit any content on these pages within their web browser.
Every single one of those pages works perfectly except for the faq page. For some reason it does not post the full contents of the text field and it adds "%3" to the end of the file.
To end the day I am going to make a local backup of my work. Tomorrow I plan to test the faq page to figure out why this it is acting differently. Also I am going to be reviewing the website to ensure that all the newly added functionality is correctly implemented and reassess the completion status. From what I understand I have to add the course materials link on the dynamic course_by_prof.php page.
I also received an email from Stewart regarding the Agenda project. Liz has a few recommendations for Agenda website that I am going to be looking into to see how easily they can (if they can) be implemented and present a report back to Stewart before moving forward with any changes. I want to make sure that whatever changes will not negatively affect any other department using this web application.
Every single one of those pages works perfectly except for the faq page. For some reason it does not post the full contents of the text field and it adds "%3" to the end of the file.
To end the day I am going to make a local backup of my work. Tomorrow I plan to test the faq page to figure out why this it is acting differently. Also I am going to be reviewing the website to ensure that all the newly added functionality is correctly implemented and reassess the completion status. From what I understand I have to add the course materials link on the dynamic course_by_prof.php page.
I also received an email from Stewart regarding the Agenda project. Liz has a few recommendations for Agenda website that I am going to be looking into to see how easily they can (if they can) be implemented and present a report back to Stewart before moving forward with any changes. I want to make sure that whatever changes will not negatively affect any other department using this web application.
Reviewed technical docs and prepared outline of points specific to this audience's interest in interface design issues and in using graphical metaphors as front-ends to query a database of texts.
Then did presentation with Janelle for an hour, moving from the large photocopy through the static html through the xml database with plain images and with mapserver interface.
Dave Wolowicz came by at end of day to work on problem with php SESSION array depending on URL used to access files. Spent over an hour debugging until we arrived at solution, then I did some further testing to ensure everything was OK.
There was a php.ini file in the php folder in each instance. It contained only instructions for error reporting. The existence of this file was causing the problems.
In the lang account, the incomplete php.ini file was over-riding settings in the default php.ini file in /usr/lib/ on the main unix box (though that conflicts with my understanding of the cascade relationship). Once I got rid of the extraneous php.ini file in lang, it worked.
In the lang02 account, there was a .htaccess file in the root of the account that specified that the phpconfig path should be a php.ini file in another folder in the account. That file worked as long as the url incoming was "lang02" and not "hrd". Again, not sure why accessing the files through the hrd url would bypass that .htaccess file in the root of the lang02 account, but it did.
Once I got rid of the extraneous .htaccess and php.ini file in the lang02 account both the lang02 and the hrd urls work.
June 20, 2007
Ended up staying late demoing the IMT to DHSI attendees.
In and out of the DHSI workshop; meeting with Syd and Dot re TEI/image markup stuff; demonstrating the IMT to workshop attendees.
Reached page 24 out of 33 in the current article.