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Project Update #8 #9

Open stanickld opened 3 years ago

stanickld commented 3 years ago

This week we shifted our focus to doing some more analyzation of the lyrics instead of coding. Both Sarah and I read through the lyrics and listened to the album again to refresh ourselves and gain a better understanding of the mood and tone, and how they help reflect Hozier's views on religion - especially Christianity.

We also are going to finalize the designs for the main structure of our website by the end of next week. We both think it's important to have the basic structure finished and uploaded to Fetch before we begin the process of transforming the XML files into XHTML. In our most recent project meeting, both Sarah and I have expressed nerves about XSLT since we're still catching up on the homework, but I'm confident that over the next week we'll both be able to utilize office hours to make sure what we're doing is correct.

racheljfu commented 3 years ago

Since you only have songs from one album, doing batch transformation should not take too long. My group recently did batch transformation to fix some mistakes in our files, and it didn't take too long even though we have 90 poems. I also recommend working through the XSLT in office hours with Dr. Birnbaum, because oftentimes he will teach you new and faster ways to code that we didn't use in class, and help you improve your current code. Overall, it sounds like you guys are making great progress!

otakunaomi commented 3 years ago

Overall it sounds like you group is doing great. Before creating your xslt, I would recommend putting all your xml markups for each song into one long xml, that way when you do the xslt, all the song data can be pulled at the same time. I am not sure if this may help with structuring your xslt, but take at my group's (Norse-Tales) repo to see how I formatted the big xml and the corresponding xslt. The big xml is called "alltales.xml" and the xslt for it is "alltales.xsl". I used a couple of the features we learned during the xslt assignments to format a table of contents and linking those to each tale that is past the contents table. But I think that assignment that might be the most helpful for your group is looking at the sonnet assignment where we separated everything by lines since that is typically how songs are formatted (I want to say that was xslt assignment 2). I hope everything goes well, and good luck!

djbpitt commented 3 years ago

There’s nothing wrong with combining all your texts into one XML file, but that isn’t a requirement for processing all of the data together, which you can do with separate documents by using the XPath collection() function. Some course projects are already using it, so if you think it might be useful, you might want to follow up in Slack.

raisedDeadWizard commented 3 years ago

I think its interesting that you are taking on the challenge of trying to interpret music in tandem with religion. Its a generally very subjective thing that I am intrigued to see you all make somewhat objective with you research. I too have been behind on the xslt homework, but I will say if you haven't already the feedback that the TA's give is suuuuuuper helpful when it comes to xslt revision. Also reaching out to them via slack has been a great option for me when I am not super comfortable posting in the #xslt channel.