Map Of London

As with Graves and Mariage, I've refactored all the XQuery main modules to namespace all variables. Also did some other cleanup, and found a couple of bugs that need fixing:

• data/xsl does not contain captions_module.xsl, a generated file which is needed by the search XQuery. Not sure why.
• When images are built into the XAR (and the flat-file site), their paths should all be collapsed to just images/* or graphics/*, which happens in /site/, but in the XAR the original paths appear to be preserved. That's just dumb, and I can't see why it's happening, but it should be a simple fix.
• Some key words need to be added to the stopword list such as "London" and "map".

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.

Spent a lot of time working on the search today, and ended up making it much simpler:

• We don't need an AJAX option; just appending #search_results to the form/@action param gives you the effect you want when moving between pages. All AJAX stuff now removed.
• We don't need a "search for" option; it's better to have a more refined "search in" dropdown, allowing you to search the personography or the bibliography etc.
• We have some remaining problems with what to actually search. We will need to make a distinction between document content and the peripheral lists of other related documents. At the moment, this distinction is not adequately made across the different document types. There needs to be a single div which is isolated from the peripheral stuff which contains the content which is at the heart of the document, and unique to it, and that's what needs to be searched. That'll take a reworking of the static site output.
• I've added a tiny site option for MoEML, because it was taking ridiculous amounts of time to build and deploy the full app. It's very crude at the moment, but I should be able to refine it over time so it covers most of what we need.
• There's some anomalous behaviour with the exist indexing of meta elements in the header; the search should pull back only (for instance) tags with @name="dcterms.title", but it seems to be retrieving others nearby. That could be caused by corrupted indexes due to an incomplete uninstall of the webapp.

As I work out the logic of the various search options, I'm finding more tweaks that I need to do to the XHTML to make it amenable to the search. This will be an ongoing thing. But the search page itself is semi-functional at least, and I have the basics mapped out in comments for the more faceted searches.

We'll need to share our XSLT, so I've added it to the site files. Also wrote some (so far untested) functionality in the search XQuery, which remains remarkably simple so far.

I've started on the XQuery to process the search page, and it's coming along. Builds are taking a long time for testing purposes, though. Must add a few more variant targets that do subsets of the work quickly.

Worked on the build process and the controller file. No search yet, but everything else is working as far as I can see. Next step is the search.

Filled out the template with more info from KB. This is coming along. Now waiting on a couple of sets of info to create personography entries, then we may be good to go.

Beginning serious work on the eXist XAR for the static build. Created the collection.xconf and updated the ant buildfile based on what we learned from Mariage. Took the stopword list from the 100 most common English words on Wikipedia; it's hardly EME, but we'll probably tweak it later as we see how variants appear. There are 35,450 files to add into the XAR, and it's 762.7 MB in size; we'll see how long it takes to deploy such a monster.