@rend and the war on text-bearing attributes
In discussing that the TEI attribute @rend from att.global although it allows you to type just about anything in it, doesn’t actually allow anything more that a set of single tokens. I recently explained to John, Paul, George, or Ringo … Continue reading
Is it Bill or Ben that is speaking of flowerpot men?
A friend asked a question about how to encode a dramatic speech that possibly should be considered two speeches. Owing to a printing mistake, the second speaker’s name was omitted, so some consider it a single speech by the first … Continue reading
TEI P4 Support, Survey Results
Introduction This post contains the results of a survey that collected information which the TEI Technical Council will use to assess the need for ongoing support for the TEI P4 version of its Guidelines. These have largely been replaced by the TEI P5 … Continue reading
TEI Consortium and its Future
John Unsworth, interim chair of the TEI Consortium (TEI-C) has asked those running for TEI Board or TEI Technical Council, and those who are remaining in place to answer some questions regarding the development of the TEI. I’m already serving a … Continue reading
Digital Humanities 2011
Digital Humanities 2011 My report from Digital Humanities 2011 is below. If anyone wants any more information about the various sessions I attended, I’m happy to try and dredge my memory for a recollection of my impressions. Otherwise the book of abstracts is available. Most … Continue reading
grouping by group-adjacent=”boolean(self::lb)”
A project I was doing some work for had some input that looked like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <TEI xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <teiHeader xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" type="text"> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>A sample file</title> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <distributor>InfoDev</distributor> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>VSARPJ project</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <profileDesc> <creation> <date/> … Continue reading
Ubuntu Twinview Maximizing Windows problem
This is more of a note-to-self. I had a problem in my recent upgrade to the latest Ubuntu in that my two monitors, when set to ‘twinview’ meant that the panels and task bars, and maximized windows spanned both monitors. … Continue reading
Thunderbird Calendar Automatic Export
Previously I wrote about thunderbird, davmail, exchange and exporting to google calendar and my system was setup and working fine. Then I upgraded (full-wipe and install) to the latest Ubuntu operating system and I had to set things up again. … Continue reading
Teaching in Helsinki
I was recently invited to Helsinki by Varieng to teach a workshop on TEI XML, and specifically on TEI XML concentrating on transcription. The workshop slides and materials are at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-10-helsinki/. Though these were largely based on the TEI Summer … Continue reading
simple dynamic transformation of xml with htaccess, php, and xslt
I often transform from TEI XML to XHTML as part of projects, but in some instances it is more difficult to manage using things like the eXist XML Database or Apache Cocoon, or even AxKit. This is because the hosting … Continue reading