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
For Loops in XSLT2
A colleague asked me the other day about the proper way to do for-loops in XSLT2 or more specifically in XPath2. He knows all about xsl:for-each and xsl:for-each-group iteration over things, and of course recursively calling a template while passing … Continue reading
ENRICH
Until December 2009 I worked on the ENRICH project, and as it has now finished, I thought that I should reflect on some of what the project has done and the aspects we’ve been involved with here in Oxford. For … Continue reading
Thunderbird + Lightning Nexus Calendar Export to Google Calendar
There are plenty of ways to sync one’s work (nexus, Oxford’s version of Exchange) calendar with google if you are using Windows and Outlook. However, I’m using Ubuntu Linux. The solution I’ve chosen for getting mail and shared calendaring is … Continue reading
TEI-Comparator
I have just finished my poster for DRHA 2009 which is about the TEI-Comparator that RTS worked on for the Holinshed Project. My poster is available online in PDF and PNG formats. (Though for the record it was created in … Continue reading
addingIDs
Rehdon asked me about giving @xml:id attributes to things, so I whipped up this quick XSLT stylesheet. Some people prefer to use generate-id() to get a truly random and unique ID without semantic baggage. In many cases, where IDs are … Continue reading
adding word-level markup
Rehdon and snail and others occasionally have asked me recently about marking up words inside another element where there may be markup (sometimes containing more than one word) inside this so I thought I’d write it up. So for example … Continue reading
Evaluate a string as an XPath
Looking at ways to process a suggested change in TEI P5, I wanted to test that there is a straightforward way to evaluate a string that exists in a document as if it was an XPath you had included in … Continue reading
XSLT2 collection() with dynamic collections from directory listings
Something I didn’t know about XSLT2′s collection() function. I had previously used it in the form: where docs.xml has a structure of: You can then address, via the variable, the structure of those files blort1 and blort2 and iterate over … Continue reading