Alejandro Bia

Computing Methods applied to DH: TEI-XML Markup and CSS/XSLT Rendering

(intermediate level)

The main purpose of this workshop is to learn how to encode texts using XML and TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), and to try some rendering techniques. Participants will:
- acquire skills in text encoding using the TEI set of tags, beggining with prose, drama and poetry.
- will get an introduction to document rendering using CSS and XSLT
Additionally, we will deal with other interesting issues, if time allows.

Students should bring a USB pendrive

WORKSHOP TOPICS:

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

DOCUMENT STRUCTURE:
- 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)