Markup Strategy
Unique Wording
When marking up My Immortal, we kept our eye out for specific things. Whenever we found slang, or a word that was misspelled, we would mark it with the "word" (w) tag. We then specified the proper way of spelling that word by adding the attribute "norm" inside the "word" tag.
Characters
We also kept track of the characters within the story. We did this in various different ways. One way was by creating a XML id for each character, so whenever we found the character mentioned in the story, we would tag them with their unique id. In addition, whenever there was dialogue, we would mark who was speaking with the tag "said" and then use the attribute "who" to indicate the speaker =. We also created a character list that maps out all the characters mentioned, any nicknames they have in the story, and mispellings of their names.
Fashion
The author writes detailed descriptions of the clothing characters wear, though the character they do this most often is the protagonist. We marked whenever one of these descriptions happen with the "reference string" tag and the attrbute "fashion" (rs type="fashion") to do this markup
We also used the rs tag to mark any swearing that was done in the fanfiction, we would switch the tag from "fashion" to "swear."
Transferring XML Documents into HTML
We ultilized XSLT to transfer all of the xml documents of the fanfiction we marked up into HTML in order to put them onto this website. We did this by creating a collection of all of our My Immortal XML documents in XSLT. Each chapter of My Immortal that we have is divided by a text element. So, we were able to make sure that the chapters were shown in the correct order on the website by adding an "n" attribute to each text element. We also created a class element for all of the name tags that we created and in our css we made it so that in the reading view of our website every time a character is first mentioned in a chapter, their name is highlighted. We also have a small view of our character list that people can reference while they read the fanfiction.