Re: How to render TEI <div*>s with chapter-like pagina

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Subject: Re: How to render TEI <div*>s with chapter-like pagination?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:37:17 -0400

James,

Much of your problem may be in trying to handle arbitrary TEI. The DTD is loose enough, as you are finding, to make for quite a challenge in the general case. :->

Most (or let's just say all) TEI will not use the full tag set, and it'll be considerably easier to write stylesheets to handle the TEI subset used in a particular project. If there's any way you can do that, consider it.

You might also find splitting your transform into two passes helpful. First pass to normalize (e.g. makes all numbered divs into plain divs; XSLT doesn't need the numbering!), and a second pass to provide the formatting. The formatting stylesheet can accordingly be much tidier.

This is all because there's no getting around the problem of specifying, for example, which elements other than the divs should be pulled in with them, which should be given their own page sequences, which should be grouped, etc.

It's really beginning to sound like a grouping problem. This too is tractable -- but will be much more so if your source is normalized into a tighter model. (Grouping problems need tight models!)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 05:37 PM 4/10/2003, you wrote:

Not quite. Some the stuff before the <div>s should
definitely go in its own page sequence, but others
maybe should not. However many of the elements in
between and after the <div>s -- but not all -- do not
belong in their own page sequence at all, but in the
page sequence of the preceding <div*>.

I'm beginning to see why the TEI stylesheets had yet
to tackle this. Uy!

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Re: How to render TEI <div*>s with chapter-like pagination?, (continued)
- Wendell Piez - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:00:19 -0400 (EDT)
  - James J. Ramsey - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:12:44 -0400 (EDT)
    - David Carlisle - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:35:10 -0400 (EDT)
    - James J. Ramsey - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:33:04 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:34:30 -0400 (EDT) <=
    - James J. Ramsey - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:45:00 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:30:45 -0400 (EDT)
    - James J. Ramsey - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:59:24 -0400 (EDT)
    - James J. Ramsey - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:13:05 -0400 (EDT)

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