Hi all,

Maybe it's worth mentioning that we developed some XSLT templates + CSS 
rules for rendering the example snippets in TEI By Example (see e.g. 
<http://teibyexample.org/>). Currently, the XSLT (nor XQuery) sources 
are accessible, though maybe it's something we should consider adding in 
the future...

On 30/10/2011 17:37, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2011, at 15:14, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Yours is wonderfully sophisticated -- there are definitely some things I
>> need to incorporate into mine from yours, such as namespace prefixes,
>> which I hadn't really thought about.
> the other things to think about are rewrapping text, and doing inline
> markup where<hi>possible</hi>. I use mine a lot for teaching,
> where it is important not to use up too much space on slides.
>
> I spent a _long_ time fighting namespaces and prefixes
> and declarations. It's not easy to know what to do, especially
> when you target static formats like PDF or docx.

Regarding the two issues pointed out in this thread, this is how we did it:
     -namespaces: only those namespace declarations are copied  that 
aren't already present in the parent element (meaning that only new 
namespace declarations are copied on the nodes they are declared on)
     -inline elements: an element is determined to be inline if:
             -there are more element siblings than non-empty text siblings
             -and the first preceding or following sibling text element 
doesn't end, resp. start with non-whitespace
      ...or in XPath:

     count(parent::*/*)&gt; count(parent::*/text()[normalize-space() != ''])
     and
     not(preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::text()[matches(., '\S$')]]|following-sibling::node()[1][self::text()[matches(., '^\S')]])


For example example renderings:
     -see e.g. 
<http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/modules/TBED01v00.htm#generalsummary>
     -enter e.g. following XML fragment in the TBE validator 
(<http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/xquery/TBEvalidator.xq>):

     <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
         <el xmlns="test">
             <el2 xmlns:test="test" xmlns:que="que">this will be computed as inline content
                 <test:el3 xmlns:test="test">text with an inline<el>element</el>, surrounded with more text</test:el3>
             </el2>
             <el2 xmlns:test="test" xmlns:que="que">this will be computed as block content, since 2 elements>  1 text() node
                 <test:el3 xmlns:test="test">text with an inline<el>element</el>, surrounded with more text</test:el3>
                 <test:el3 xmlns:test="test">text<el>with</el>  more<el>inline</el>  <el>element nodes</el>  <el>than</el>  non-empty text</test:el3>
             </el2>
         </el>
     </egXML>


Ron

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