This is an extremely cool project, and I look forward to exploring the teiPublisher site more thoroughly. Now as to Al Magary's specific question, since I'm in the odd position of actually liking XSLT (as opposed to merely tolerating it), why yes, if you marked up your Latin quotations with <lq> tags, just a few lines of XSLT would pull those out and display them in (say) a web page. Just a slightly more complex script would display the Latin quotations in Ch. 5, or allow for more flexible types of searches. This kind of script works extemely well as a back end for a web site.
Peter
Martin Holmes wrote:
Hi there,
At 12:48 PM 24/06/2004, you wrote:
Who or what even locates all the <lq> coded text, much less does anything with it? If a user approached my etext and asked himself, "I wonder how much Latin is in Hall," how would the coding help? How do I as the author tell a user, "I put a lot of fancy coding into Hall, so just press _____ and bingo!"
The eXist XML database makes this kind of query easy. We're currently working on a system called teiPublisher, an open-source project to provide a repository for XML document collections which allows searching and browsing based on eXist queries:
http://teipublisher.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php
Searches in eXist are done through the XQuery language, which is very flexible and allows you to do sophisticated searches based on the document tree, rather than the kind of simple plain-text searches we're used to from Web search tools.
Cheers, Martin
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