HCMC Blogs

Following a check from SF, I've now deleted orphaned owners, and checked to ensure that this did not result in any more titles without owners (there are ten very old ones with no details and no owners due to their age).

Still catching up from the vacation.

Made the search work more intuitively so that categories with no hits are completely hidden; fixed and refined some of the colour choices for categories; and added a whole bunch more streets from the north east.

GL, CH and I met to go through CH's bio drafts; these are now ready for encoding, and will then be proofed again. Then met with the two new Directed Reading students and gave them an intro to the project; we set them up with some Google Docs and materials, and they're going to start by picking some bios to write.

Hi Lauren,

came across conflict with NEREIDS. many different spellings of their individual names. Butler went heavy on the "K"s but other sources went with "C"s as in Cymodoce instead of Kymodoke. which should we go for and should we offer the alternate as an aka?

For now I will leave the alternate spellings below and have them commented out in the xml.

Kymodoke = Cymodoce (Κυμοδόκη)
Speo = Speio (Σπειώ) or Spio as we have it in the character file from Apollodorus
Limnoria(Apollodorus) = Limnorea(Butler) = Limnoreia(Wikipedia: Λιμνώρεια)
Iaira (Homer) = Iaera (Wikipedia: Ἴαιρα)
kallianeira(butler) = Callianeira (Καλλιάνειρα)

eXist 2.2 serializers now use the XQuery 3.0 rec. which breaks up the serialize instructions into individual declarations. So, according to the spec, you serialize as XHTML 5 like this:

declare namespace output = "http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";
declare option output:method "xhtml";
declare option output:html-version "5.0";
declare option output:media-type "text/html";

Except, it looks like eXist may have a bug in there, because the above produces html without a doctype. To get around this use xhtml5 instead of just xhtml in the output:method declaration.

Also, we're using "text/html" for media-type instead of "application/xhtml+xml" because some stuff just doesn't work using xhtml+xml (Google Maps, specifically).

NOTE: Remember to change your page to use xquery 3.0

It's clear that some categories will need to be rendered in particular ways; I've implemented a system for doing this, and used the streets and wards (only one ward so far) for piloting it. Seems to be working well.

Also added a few more streets.