Wrote some comparison XSLT and started merging based on the results. Each one needs to be manually checked, so it'll take a while.
Also team meeting, notes on GitHub by GL.
February 8, 2017
February 7, 2017
Greg pointed out that we are using Ø (Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke, U+00D8) for our zero morpheme marker, rather than ∅ (Empty Set, U+2205). The latter is noted in the Unicode character map as the one used in linguistics to indicate a null morpheme or phonological zero.
We have at least been consistent in our use of the former! We may not have known the Empty Set character existed when we chose the other one in 2010, or it may have been a font-based choice. (I'm using Aboriginal Sans in Oxygen right now, and the Empty Set character doesn't display properly.)
Martin will add this change to his list of global changes to make when improving our current encoding, if we can be assured of fonts that include Empty Set along with all the other special characters we need.
Called away early on 6th: 9-11 (2 hours)
7th:
Finished in events, created up until 11.6, Ptolemy wages war...
Have proof read etc. up until 11.8
Hours: 2:30-4:30 (2)
Went to a session on FAST research accounts. Useful stuff learned.
Things learned today:
- When you create fields in a range index in exist, give them unique and unusual names. I had one called "name", and it was borking the indexing completely (stuff ended up indexed that shouldn't be).
- In XSLT, do NOT use short-form attribute constructors for @xml:* attributes. It's not illegal, but it's inadvisable, and it causes your XSLT document to be unfriendly to XML parsers which will complain that the @xml:id attribute is not a QName. Use the explicit xsl:attribute constructor. This was preventing me from uploading XSLT into eXist, so I've refactored all the static build XSLT to solve it.
- There's a bug in the Agas Map static output (and possibly elsewhere) which you can see by finding ABBE2, then clicking on "Harben" in its popup. This is an issue relating to links in AJAX-imported content, and may require that AJAX content be processed a bit before being displayed.
- Simple is good when it comes to search. One drop-down for "Search In" is all we need.
GL's desktop was rebuilt, and the huge TCCD git repo was copied over. However, it had been checked out using git://, and somehow it knew that the old desktop had SSH keys configured on GitHub, so we had to generate new keys (GL couldn't remember the pw for the old keys), add them to ssh-agent, and add the public key to GitHub (the key must be for the email address by which GitHub knows you). Then pulls and pushes would work. All this is quicker than checking out that repo again, of course.
GL and I reviewed my rough numbers for JL and sent a follow-up.
I think we're done with this one now.
February 6, 2017
In late because of TEI Council telco from home.