[tei-council] parsing odds

[Christian Wittern]

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> Christian Wittern wrote:
>
>>In trying to do something useful with the P5 sources, I tried to
>>inject them into eXist.  Using the scripts on sf did not produce
>>anything at all (eXist complains about data not being allowed in the
>>prolog of teinames.xml etc.)
>>
> can you expand on this? what scripts? if there are errors,
> lets fix them....

Well, I suspect it has to do with incompatibilities with the most
recent eXist and SOAP::Lite, but at the moment, I do not have time to
go into this:-(

> look at the Makefile target "split", it makes a set of useable XML files
> from each chapter, just for this purpose. thats how the eXist database
> used by Roma is peopled.

I see.  So I will do accordingly.

> one downside is that it limits you to tools which understand
> XInclude. support is by no means universal, I think.
>
> I can't quote chapter and verse, but Lou and I have certainly
> argued around this, and experimented, on several occasions;
> I know I made the XInclude  argument several times, but
> we didn't adopt it.
>
> I think its a red herring, to be honest.

In that case there is no need to press this issue now.

All the best,

Christian