Open ebeshero opened 1 year ago
@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.
Resolved! We will write XSLT to
<add>
elements when these are added by us via this XPath: //div[@type="entry"]/head/date/add[not(@resp)]
As of 25 April 2023: This is complete through 1820, but 1819 remains to be corrected.
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.