LEMDO 2026-04-13 to 2026-04-17
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 425
On Monday, worked a little on issue #2, revived after going moribund
some years ago. We need to standardize the use of <name> versus
<persName>, especially in <respStmt>s,
where we use a mix of both for no good reason. The consensus is that we should
switch to <persName>, so I have updated the print source XML
files accordingly and fixed that processing, but there are still over 2,000
instances of <name> in this context in the rest of the
data. They can all be fixed with a single regex operation, whenever requested.
On Wednesday, made most of the major changes early in the day before the
team got to work, then spent a good while chasing down remaining instances of
the <name> element and code expecting to find and process it.
Then added and tested a new diagnostic to find unwanted <pubPlace>
elements (issue #442), and a further new diagnostic for duplicate gloss notes
(issue #441), during which I also tweaked and updated other diagnostics to add
missing document filter attributes. Finally, I worked on bad links and other
issues surfaced by the diagnostics.
On Friday, added a mechanism for excluding neglected or abandoned texts from the diagnostics, so that we can better see what needs attention. Then started working through the much reduced list of bad internal links, fixing anything with an obvious fix.