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nths, nds, sts, rds on date numbers in Journal #19

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ebeshero opened this issue Feb 21, 2023 · 3 comments
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nths, nds, sts, rds on date numbers in Journal #19

ebeshero opened this issue Feb 21, 2023 · 3 comments
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Noted that Mitford in her journal sometimes misdates and corrects herself and in the 1820s is usually applying "nth", "nd", "st", and "rd" to date numbers. This is not represented in the typed journal.

We need to decide on a way of handling this prior to May 1820.

@tylerakam shall apply Mitford's exact rendering of dates in the text nodes for the portion that the Behrend students worked on, and we'll consider how to handle the preceding entries later.

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@SavannahRicks @tylerakam and @ebeshero suddenly realized we are weirdly adding <add>MONTH</add> by convention to each journal entry. Why are we doing this? It is neither in Mitford's handwritten journal nor in the typescript.

Mitford does head her pages with the month as in "August 1820" at the top of a page. We should encode that.

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ebeshero commented Feb 21, 2023

Resolved! We will write XSLT to

  • remove the <add> elements when these are added by us via this XPath: //div[@type="entry"]/head/date/add[not(@resp)]
  • Group the entries in div elements by month (thanks, @SavannahRicks) to preserve the readability and "XPathability" of the entries.

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@ebeshero ebeshero changed the title nths, nds, sts, rds on date numbers in Journal XSLT: nths, nds, sts, rds on date numbers in Journal Mar 30, 2023
@ebeshero ebeshero changed the title XSLT: nths, nds, sts, rds on date numbers in Journal nths, nds, sts, rds on date numbers in Journal Mar 30, 2023
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As of 25 April 2023: This is complete through 1820, but 1819 remains to be corrected.

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