Heywood Manuscript
I’ve done the housekeeping & indexed the first 23 files. It has not gone easily. The housekeeping turned out to be a breeze. Then I was in the middle of indexing the 8th file when I noticed that I wasn’t getting the output that I needed. Fortunately, when I index, I don’t make entries to the various Find Stuff databases directly, but accumulate sql statements for each one in a text box and if all goes well, execute the statements which puts the info in the DB’s. The problem was, it wasn’t adding the tag to the file paths.
<a name=”h001”></a>Peter Heywood’s mother…
so if this was in the file ‘../heywood/letterbook/h008.html’, the file path to it would be ‘../heywood/letterbook/h008.html#h001’.
So in all the work I had done, the ‘#xxxx’ part was missing. Now that would work, but it would just take you to the page, not the place on the page, where what you’re looking for is.
The last time I did this was on Heywood’s Royal Naval Biography, and when I went and checked that, the last page is missing the tags also. Hmmph. So, rather than try to figure out what was wrong, I inserted a couple of lines of code in strategic places, bypassing the code that wasn’t working, and simplifying the indexing process in the bargain. I also added a couple of aids I’d had on the drawing board and had never got around to.
So, now in addition to these manuscript pages, I have to fix the Royal Navy Biography page. One of the drawbacks to databases is, that errors are very difficult to fix. For the RNB page, there are 105 entries in the people database alone. Trying to fix them would be a nightmare. The solution is to delete all entries in all DB’s with that file path and reindexing the page.
