@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 These have largely been replaced by the TEI P5 … Continue reading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
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
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
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
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
XIncluding portions of TEI Documents
‘Leoba’ another time asked me what to do when multiple files want to refer to the same textDesc, msDesc, listPerson or similar elements in their teiHeader. To me, this is the canonical example use-case for W3C XInclude. You can store … Continue reading