dot generation works on collation output TEI, svg generation does not

[scpubgit/stemmatology.git] / lib / Text / Tradition / Witness.pm

diff --git a/lib/Text/Tradition/Witness.pm b/lib/Text/Tradition/Witness.pm
index eb63bb3..161cfa4 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Text/Tradition/Witness.pm
+++ b/lib/Text/Tradition/Witness.pm
@@ -57,16 +57,19 @@ sub BUILD {
     my $self = shift;
     if( $self->has_source ) {
        # Read the file and initialize the text.
-       open( WITNESS, $self->source ) or die "Could not open " 
-           . $self->file . "for reading";
-       # TODO support TEI as well as plaintext, sometime
-       my @words;
-       while(<WITNESS>) {
-           chomp;
-           push( @words, split( /\s+/, $_ ) );
-       }
-       close WITNESS;
-       $self->text( \@words );
+       my $rc;
+       eval { no warnings; $rc = open( WITNESS, $self->source ); };
+       # If we didn't open a file, assume it is a string.
+       if( $rc ) {
+           my @words;
+           while(<WITNESS>) {
+               chomp;
+               push( @words, split( /\s+/, $_ ) );
+           }
+           close WITNESS;
+           $self->text( \@words );
+       } # else the text is in the source string, probably
+         # XML, and we are doing nothing with it.
     }
 }