LEMDO project 2022-11-14 to 2022-11-18
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 405
On Monday, investigated an apparent bug reported in the rendering of ASSP localCit
references, but this turned out to be caused by the presence of unnecessary @n
attributes, which the documentation was encouraging people to add without reason. I think
we will end up removing all @n attributes on acts, scenes and speeches where they are
simply mechanical, leaving only those which serve the functio of providing the text
label the ASSP processing will use.
On Tuesday we used the opportunity of the changes to the @place attribute
which have been planned for a while to do an introduction to XSLT; we needed to integrate
the new taxonomy into the ODD file using expandODD.xsl, then build the ODD,
then write and debug an identity transform to change the old to new values; then we had
to run that cautiously over the whole collection, and finally deal with any fallout.
We’re still actually working on that into Wednesday morning, but overall it went
quite smoothly.
Also on Wednesday we looked into the use or non-use of @n attributes in
processing of localCit pointers, and found that while the ASSP processing for the web
was using them when it shouldn’t be (fix committed), the PDF build depends on them and
so the Schematron that insists on them is correct. We have two distinct processing
approaches because the PDF uses line-numbering generated at build time in addition to
speech numbering.
On Thursday, tweaked our override of att.placement so that we don’t
get the unwanted original exempla from the TEI source, and wrote processing for
a processing instruction that will render our collection of ready-made rendition elements
as a table in the documentation.
On Friday, I did my weekly trawl through the tickets, closing one completed one, pushing a couple more forward, and raising questions on others.