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Markup of text files has made use both of formal docTitle tags and of head tags inside divs to represent titles; this may or may not be consistent (it will depend really on the type of document that's being marked up), but there was some concern that documents using head instead of docTitle were not having their titles rendered.

Checked this out with the newly-edited XML files, and it seems that both types of markup are working; where there is a docTitle tag, it is rendered as a separate block at the beginning of the document, and where there are head tags in divs, these are rendered as headings in the main block of the document. This seems to me a reasonable state of affairs -- some documents have both docTitle and head elements, and it makes sense to separate them. Pending a review of encoding practices, which will lead to a set of formal guidelines, I would say that the current behaviour on the site is acceptable. If you think there should be changes, please comment in response to this.

Examples:

• Using both docTitle and head:
  La Gazette
• Using only docTitle:
  ARREST CONTRE LES CHASTREZ (this document has a titlePart, but it isn't marked as type="main", so it doesn't appear bold/large. Why?)

• Using only head tags:
  La Bourgeoise d’esprit

Corey reported four XSS vulnerabilities in B2Evo, with instructions for patching. Did the patches.

All the original data files were created using a schema from the Image Markup Tool, which was named for the IMT version which created it. This is now obsolete, with a new version of the IMT which slightly changes the schema, so I updated all the data as follows:

1. Created a new schema from the current version of the IMT, but named it mariage.xsd so that future changes don't involve editing XML files.
2. Edited all the text markup files, changing the schema link to point at the new schema. Validated all the files.
3. Changed all the image markup xml files to point at the new schema, and made changes so that they would validate.
4. Created a new web-sized version of the image for the paris.xml file (new, partly-done markup).
5. Uploaded all the image files to the eXist db and tested them. Some changes to the XSLT were necessary to make the new format work; edited imt_p5_1_to_xhtml.xsl (this filename should also probably change in the future).
6. Uploaded new text xml files into eXist and tested them.

All files now use the same schema, called mariage.xsd, and all validate. Made the initial changes on ENDIVE so Claire and France will pick up the changes when they come down to work on Thursday.

Melanie reported that Text Search capability in London map failing. She last tried it late in September and it was working.

I investigated, involving David and Greg at various points.

A search.php file running on Cortland against the eXist db on tapor works.
The identical file running on Tapor against the same db fails. Problem appears to be related to this bug in FrancoToile. On the FrancoToile site, the search.php fails in a similar way. An identical page running on the Lansdowne Lecture site against a different instance of the db (containing identical data files for testing) works.

Before getting to the id($id) call, there are other failures. David thinks problem must be with what's coming back in the array of ids. That's what I'll investigate next.

Since the new hcmc site was posted, there have been problems with the clipart library housed in a clipart library within the site.

There were about four directories of images missing on the hcmc site, so I unzipped a zip file of the old hcmc site on my hard drive and found the missing directories. Alas, there were no files inside the directories.

It turns out there were no files in a number of other directories in the clipart folder on my hard drive, even though those files and folders did exist on the hcmc account and I'm sure I used the files on my mac to upload to the new hcmc site in the first place.

I went to another account on the backup machine and found another copy of the clipart site and downloaded it to my mac. It turns out this one is missing the directories and contained image files for the clocks from 1:00 to 4:40, but appears to have everything else.

I've put a copy of that folder from the backup machine into the langcen account, and now have to find only those missing clock files.

Talked with Paul about problems history dept is having getting access to their timetable db, which we thought at that point was solved (see earlier post)

Turns out that I also needed to add a new entry into the htpasswd file in their department account on web.uvicc.ca. Got that done and now they have access as they are accustomed.

Talked to Jessica, but Paul not available. I'll update him when he reappears.

After a couple of emails back and forth, met with Robin Sutherland:
- he will send me templates later this week
- he wants me to participate in reviewing new design for templates
- CASS is setting up a "Web Services" office with campus-wide scope, currently has 3 staff. Robin said it would interact with the Faculty support team, and the central communications office and would be doing the redesign.

The Dean may want to update the Humanities site. Preparing the proposal entails:
- familiarize myself with current site
- familiarize myself with DW/Contribute model
- familiarize myself with UVic templates
- get specifics from Dean at meeting on Monday Dec 4
Task will be completed when either proposal is done or I've decided that needed work is so minor that a proposal is not warranted.

Nov. 23, 24 and 27.
I digitised several video clips Dr. Niang requires for an upcoming exam.
Tasks:

• Consult with Dr. Niang - get in and out points for clips
• Capture from VHS and DVD
• Consult follow-up
• Render clips

Each post title in the report table is now preceded by a small page image linking directly to the post itself. We can now use the report tool as another type of search engine to find a post and then jump to it.

Took a bit longer than it should to do this because I'm sick in bed and not firing on all cylinders.