Course Summary

Monday

• 0930 Digital Texts, XML, and TEI. (What is text anyway? How does XML represent it?)
• 1000: Discussion; review of participants' encoding needs
• 1015: TEI contents: an overview of the modules making up TEI P5 (LB)
• 1100: break
• 1130: Practical: introducing the TEI Knoppix CD (SR), and working with an XML editor (MJD)

Tuesday

• 0900: Detailed encoding: manuscripts; part 01, part 02, part 03, part 04, part 05, part 06, part 07, part 08, part 09, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18, part 19 (MJD)
• 0945: Review discussion
• 1000: One Document Does It All An introduction to the ODD system (SR)
• 1030: break
• 1100: Practical: Using Roma to generate TEI customizations.
• 1200: Some other TEI modules (LB)
• 1230: Lunch

Wednesday

• 0900: Retrieval and analysis using XSLT (How do you put an XML document on the web? What is XSLT? Translating and analysing documents with XSLT.) (SR)
• 0945: Review discussion
• 1000: XSLT and XPath, continued (SR)
• 1030: break
• 1100: Practical: Transforming XML files
• 1200: Applying this to manuscript descriptions (MJD)
• 1230: Lunch

Thursday

• 0900: RelaxNG
  • slides, HTML
  • slides, TEI source
  • Examples are in the directory, with names e00_something.ext, where 00 is a two-digit number, something is a name, and ext is rng, rnc, or xml.
• 11:00: break
• 11:30: TEI

Additional Resources

• TEI bootable Knoppix CD-ROM
• TEI Lite Guide
• Useful URLs and books list
• Notes on tagging Punch
• Notes on cemetery data
• Detailed presentation on XPath
• Detailed presentation on XQuery
• Summary of XSLT and XPath