XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering

This workshop comprises two parts:

• Part 1: Introduction to XML-TEI text encoding, deals with producing digital text documents using XML and the TEI encoding scheme. This is a hands-on, introductory-level course.
• Part 2: XML-TEI document structuring and rendering, deals with designing and validating document structures, and with producing nice renderings by means of CSS stylesheets and XSLT transformations. This is a hands-on, medium-high level course.

Part 1: Introduction to XML-TEI text encoding

Introduction

• Introduction
• Ways of representing documents electronically

Document Encoding

• Markup basics
• Text markup using XML and TEI
• High level tags
• Low level tags
• Markup of different literary styles
• Special-purpose tagsets

Part 2: XML-TEI document structuring and rendering

Document Structuring

• Controlling document structure (DTDs and Schemas)
• Visual modelling of document structures

Document Rendering

• Text rendering & transformation
• CSS sylesheets
• XSLT transformations

Other Issues (if time allows)