- The documentation states that ElementID’s “must be sequential following the order in the original publication (Input file). The format is the IndPubID followed by a hyphen and then a sequential number starting with 1”. That is the order they are extracted from the source text, however, it is not the order they appear in the taXMLit document.
- add entries on namespaces, in XSL need to either select all namespaces or to define taXMLit namespace with prefix
- The <lb> (line break) and <p> (paragraph) tags from TEI are used if the reviewer deems them significant. They are not used to record general layout. For example, <lb> will not be used to record line breaks in general paragraph text, but may be used to record line breaks in a heading.
In contrast, TEI’s <hi> (highlight) has widespread use. Wherever text is in bold or italic, then the tag seems to have been used to record it. However, other text attributes such as size or alignment, are not recorded.
So, taXMLit cannot be used to recreate the original layout and format of a source text. It is only partially document centric. This should not matter as it is the metadata in a taXMLit document that matters to taxonomists, and they should always be able to go back to the original scanned image should they need to consider some aspect of the document layout. - The use of <lb> noted above complicates any attempt to automate mark up as we need explicit criteria to insert tags.
- Page numbers are required for nomenclature reasons, not document reasons.
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