And so it begins: this is what greeted me when I started eXist after, apparently, mucking about in expathrepo when I wasn't supposed to. What follows is basically a screenshot diary of the recovery process--I'm not sure I really want to revisit it, but perhaps I'll come back and add a narrative later...
No, most definitely not…
Yesterday, I made some progress on displaying file author names in a new column on the front page--figured out how the WORK-TYPES document is called and accessed, how data is retrieved from it, decided it would be better to pull the names directly from the data files, and did it. Sort of. I was running into a problem …
Today a basic display, tomorrow the world?
Thanks in very large part to the patience and availability of a couple of awesome open source developers, I have a basic application that displays the texts in the collection with header info! I haven't started on formatting, searching, exporting, or incorporating the page images, but soon. Also, I learned where to put the .PNG file …
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A tiny piece of the puzzle
I think I've figured something out that's been eluding me regarding the way that functions get called--I'm still a bit wobbly on the model/map lingo, but it just occurred to me how the different functions are organized and data passed between XQL and HTML files. The main VIEW-WORK.HTML file calls functions defined in APP.XQL, the primary point of entry. …
Starting fresh
I spent almost all day yesterday trying to figure out why one function worked, and what I thought was pretty much an exact duplicate, tweaked to pull different elements, didn't--I was pretty frazzled by the end of it, and I think I need to start fresh today (I did put another call out on the …
“Writing” a first function
Back from Greece, which means, back to the database project! As I've written before, this whole experience is a learning process for me--I'm learning about functions, where they're called, how they hook up with other bits and bobs to display data in specific ways. This should be fairly straightforward, and I'm trying to make it …
Getting by with a little help from sourceforge and twitter
As you can no doubt tell, I don't know a lot about xquery, database applications, or how data is called/manipulated/displayed in eXist--there's a whole host of other "things I don't know" but that I also don't have names for yet. I'll try to explain what I'm doing in laywoman's terms, but if you know what I'm really …
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Further adventures in XML
With the help of at least (!) one tech-savvy friend and the samples that come with eXisit-db, I've cobbled together a basic prototype of the Novels in Context project! Here's what I've done and learned so far, in addition to some things that don't work, and which I plan to fix: I was able to …
On constructing an editorial apparatus
How do we go about constructing a thematic editorial apparatus in TEI? The challenge is generating a thematic schema that is flexible and useful but not overly directive or misleading. I've been meditating on how to mark up thematic elements in a small (but growing!) collection of primary source materials for the study and, primarily, …
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