LEMDO 2024-07-08 to 2024-07-12
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 530
On Tuesday, finally figured out and fixed the bug that was causing repetition of text in the moving of footnote symbols: I always forget that the dot character in XSLT does not by default include linebreaks. Now I think that feature is fully working, and if BGH confirms this, I’ll move on to creating a mechanism by which it can be turned on and off for individual anthologies.
On Wednesday, had a meeting about the EMDP data that’s coming in, and did an analysis of the SQL database containing it. There will be a substantial amount of work involved in converting that.
On Thursday, set up an svn repo for the EMDP data, and set about remediating and writing some functions that will be needed for the conversion process. There were a number of invalid chars in the SQL which made the XML dump of it invalid; these show up weirdly in the Folger web interface too. JJ and I are figuring them out on a case-by-case basis.
After that, I added a new workaround for an edge-case in the punctuation-relocation code for issue #235, and also made that feature switchable in the XSLT, so that it can run only for specific anthologies and not for others.
On Friday, got deep into the EMDP SQL with JJ, and wrote the initial part of a conversion to the point where I have 1645 valid TEI files with working headers but no content yet.