TEI Publisher Integration

[fechan]

This issue is for tracking important information about the ongoing TEI Publisher integration feature branch.

It is possible to access content from another TEI document in the same exist-db instance with a xquery like the following, meaning it is possible to access additional info from something like a TEI site index.

doc("/db/apps/tei-publisher/data/playground/locations.txt.tei")//settlement//text()

Of course, if the location of the external document changes within the exist-db instance, this will break.

Basically, wherever you need to display additional info, you put a similar xquery in the corresponding ODD element spec. In the following screenshot, the alternate behavior opens a popover on hover of a persName element, with its contents dictated by the parameter named alternate.

[fechan]

Not a web app thing, but the TEI Publisher server will refuse to accept plaintext documents, meaning you have to convert any plain text documents you want to serve to a TEI file anyway.

[fechan]

Other possibly useful xquery statements:

• string-join((@ref, "Hello"), " ") takes the @ref attribute value of the current node and joins it with the string "Hello"
• root()//placeName//text() takes the text of any placeName anywhere in the root of the entire TEI document