Map Of London

TL reported the need to provide mouseover title attributes expanding the acronyms in links such as "ODNB" and "MASL" in the biographies. Creating parameters holding the acronyms was easy, following our usual system for <xsl:param>s created dynamically from the boilerplate.xml file, but the problem then was how to access those values dynamically. For instance, if the parameter name is $ODNB_expansion, but all I know is that the text I want to expand is "ODNB", there's no way to dynamically construct the variable name based on the string.

The solution: following the definition of the parameters in the captions stylesheet, do this:

  <xsl:variable name="acronymKeys">
    <xsl:for-each select="document('')//xsl:param[ends-with(@name, '_expansion')]">
      <hcmc:expansion key="{substring-before(@name, '_')}"><xsl:value-of select="text()"/></hcmc:expansion>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>

This processes the contents of the target parameters into a key-value structure which can be used to look up the appropriate expansion. Neat.

• Added the option for multiple values in place/@type, so the same location can be categorized in multiple ways.
• Added a link to the old site pages pointing to the redesign, to make it slightly public.
• Fixed a couple of XSLT bugs in redesign, and a duplicate id problem.
• Team meeting and meeting with TL re minor issues.

I was unable to connect to my local copy of the MoEML webapp using the eXist client -- I kept getting an error to the effect that it was unable to read permissions on a collection -- so I pulled a copy of the live webapp off the server, deleted all the .log and .lck files, and fired it up. Worked fine. I'm taking a copy of that on my laptop for presentations.

I've created a new born_digital.css file which will contain only styles which apply to born-digital documents. The first thing I've done in there is to re-implement a bunch of the default CSS settings that appear in the candidate default stylesheet for HTML5, which I found here. Then I moved a couple of rulesets over from the site_page.css file, because they were specific to div.bornDigitalText descendants. Finally, I've tweaked a few things for the sake of better readability. These are just quick changes ahead of the possibility that we might be showing the odd page from the site at presentations this month.

Lots of graphics in it, especially near the beginning. It might be a little long, but we'll see after a run-through.

Logging time from the meeting.

Sent the group some documentation on the use of <rendition>/@rendition. TL will turn this into formal documentation in the system.

Wrote some XSLT to fix up Patrick's copy of the Stow file to conform with the latest Schematron constraints.

As a result of the schema changes from yesterday, there were several hundred errors in Stow 1598, where <label> and <note> elements were lacking key attributes. I've had to add one more value for @place (inline), to handle some inline labels in the 1598, and I've also had to hack the XML a bit, adding @place values based on guesswork, and empty @style values. These are obviously temporary hacks.