DVPP 2026-03-30 to 2026-04-03
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 470
On Monday, worked on rendering individual pages form <linkGrp>s which have
<desc> elements, and linking those; then met with AC and KF to discuss some
illustration taxonomy changes and issues around some vocabulary.
On Tuesday, worked on flattening the menu so the old dropdown functionality is replaced by
landing pages, for a better experience on mobile and a cleaner structure. Then dealt with
a couple of tickets, adding some missing poems into the XML, and also integrated sitemap.xml
generation into the site itself. Then I worked on the issue of bad cross-stanza rhyme encoding, and
fixed it in the Chartist poems, but when I applied the same XSLT to Dark Blue there were some invalid
outputs, so that will need some investigation.
On Wednesday, debugged the problem with Dark Blue; it turned out these were genuine invalidities which were previously masked by the presence of the bad cross-stanza rhyme flag, only revealed when it was deleted, and therefore needed to be fixed. Then processed many more files in Dark Blue and Once a Week, getting a few hundred cases off the diagnostic list.
On Thursday, added in the linkGrp’s category caption to the page heading for each linkGrp that gets its own page, fixed a bug in that, and then worked on the cross-stanza rhyme problem, getting the numbers down from around 8,000 to under 2,000, and fixing many more other rhyme-related encoding errors.