With TEH, got a basic XSLT set up to convert the XHTML static output to something simpler for ePub. She's now working on that conversion, and meanwhile I'm adding templates which create all the additional files needed for the ePub creation. I've also spun out the ant tasks for this into a separate file, which will eventually handle all the ePub work.
August 29, 2018
Today I learned how to use XPath to search Book 4 of Herodotus and find names / places specifically in that section.
I also discussed with Greg Newton as per my goals for the project and we have agreed that I will follow the the events/people/places format of the myths on maps project.
Next steps are for me to compare places and people against the Person and Place documents in the Myths on Maps project and make notes on what will need to be added and what is already in the system.
August 28, 2018
Did some minor reorganization and file renaming, as part of the long-term goal of having a standard set of naming conventions; images are where most of the problems are. Also removed a bunch of old obsolete HTML and plist files that were in the repo for no good reason. Finally, added detailed documentation on how to add images to the repo and use them on pages. Docs are coming along nicely.
TEH's experiments with ePub have shown that one source of invalidities is the remaining scattering of vendor prefixes throughout the CSS, all of which are probably now completely unnecessary, so I've removed them all (with the exception of those in the Open Layers CSS, which is better left alone IMHO). This should clean things up a bit and help with getting decent ePubs. Checked with PS before removing them.
Ahead of tomorrow's meeting with EC, completed a first pass through the documentation for the interview encoding, in the form of an ODD file, and added ODD processing to documentation to the build pipeline. Tweaked the CSS quite a bit, and then fed that back into the Keats project, where it originally came from.
Posting time spent over the last week handling timesheets from Endings, Coldesp, Confederation Debates, etc.
Today I completed the XPath tutorial on the W3 schools. I can now do some basic xpath, including using xpath to search people, organisations, and places in the Myths on Maps Project and find their associated IDs.
I also explored Oxygen XML and took 5 minutes to skim the manual so I had an idea of what sort of things the program can do.
My next work session will be refining what I can do with XPath: searching particular books or sections of a document rather then the entire document.
Side note:
At some point it may be useful to explore XSLT but it may not be necessary for a project of the size I am working on.
I've now set up mod_rewrite to force https on the Jenkins servers. We'll see if that breaks anything in the builds; my guess is that the occasional call to retrieve a product in a preceding build may fail when it hits the redirect.
August 27, 2018
Late duty.
Did a semi-manual conversion of the spreadsheet data into a first draft of the analysis taxonomy, and wrote an explanatory email (whose contents should end up in the documentation from the ODD file eventually) to DC and DM.