edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inputter

Class OrigFixer

java.lang.Object

edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.corpuslinguistics.inputter.OrigFixer

public class OrigFixer
extends java.lang.Object

Fixes <orig> element and surrounding elements.

<orig> tags are used in Wright archive documents to mark words split across a page break. A typical page break appears as follows:

  <orig reg="larboard" TEIform="orig">lar-</orig>
    <pb TEIform="pb"/> board hand,
  

The "reg=" attribute of the <orig> tag provides the original unsplit spelling of the word which is split across the page boundary. The whitespace following the </orig> and preceding the <pb>, as well as the whitespace following the </pb>, causes MorphAdorner to process the split word incorrectly as multiple words instead of a single word.

OrigFixer modifies the XML for <orig> tags as follows.

• OrigFixer removes the whitespace following the closing </orig> tag up to the start of the subsequent <pb> .
• OrigFixer removes the leading whitespace from the text following the closing </pb> which follows the </orig>.
• OrigFixer replaces the trailing "-" in the word enclosed by the <orig> tag with a special user-defined Unicode character (currently 0xE502) when there is no matching "-" in the "reg=" attribute of the <orig> tag. This allows the MorphAdorner word tokenizers to distinguish the overloaded use of the trailing hyphen as a word continuation character from its use as both a continuation character and a character in the original spelling.

For example, OrigFixer modifies the sample text above to read:

  <orig reg="larboard" TEIform="orig">lar?</orig><pb TEIform="pb"/>board hand,
  

These modifications allow MorphAdorner to process the split word correctly. The MorphAdorner tokenizers recognize the special substitute hyphen character, which is restored to a plain hyphen character by the XML output writers.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	OrigFixer.OrigProcessor JDOM element processor which fixes elements.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	OrigFixer() Allow overrides but no instantiation.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	fixOrigs(org.jdom2.Document document) Fix elements in a DOM document.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OrigFixer

protected OrigFixer()

Allow overrides but no instantiation.

Method Detail

fixOrigs

public static void fixOrigs(org.jdom2.Document document)

Fix elements in a DOM document.

Parameters:

document - Document containing elements to fix.