XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering

This workshop comprises two parts:

Week 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.

Week 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-level course.

Week 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

Week 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)