Hi Jeffrey,
This is theoretical, but I don’t see why it couldn’t
work: Have you tried going the XSL/XML route? You could get your TMS data into XSL/XML,
apply your styles there, and then output it into HTML. In XSLT you could also
define your character entities to manage any diacritics. I would think that the
actual TMS data should stay as “un-styled” as possible, to maximize
formatting & style possibilities down the line.
All the best,
Ariana
From: The Museum System
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Jeffrey
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Subject: Text fields and publishing to the web
The
Freer-Sackler currently uses one of the Text Entry fields for it’s public
access label copy, so we can add web tags for formatting, including special
characters. But we certainly can’t do this for every field which
we’d like to publish. We’re working now on provenance data, and are
trying to come up with a format that won’t require tags, but won’t
get mangled in translation from SQL to HTML.
I’m
curious to hear how others are grappling with this problem, which looms large
for us!
Also,
when TMS becomes fully unicode compliant, will this mean that formatting
(italics, bold, line breaks) will be recognized by the HTML? I haven’t
been able to get an answer about this.
Thanks
for any responses,
-
Jeff
Jeffrey
Smith
Assistant
Registrar for Collections Information
Freer
Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050
Independence Avenue SW
MRC
707, P.O. Box 37012
Washington,
DC 20013-7012
tel:
202-633-0348 / fax: 202-633-9770