Digital Texts with XML and the TEI

Lou Burnard February 2004 Questions we will try to answer on this course Questions we will (probably) not try to answer on this course Today's topics What's in a text? The ontology of text Encoding of texts Styles of markup Some more definitions What does markup capture? What's the point of markup? First exercise Some alphabet soup XML: what it is and why you should care An example XML document XML terminology XML is an international standard The rules of the XML Game Representing an XML tree XML syntax: the small print Splot the mistake Defining the rules Parts of an XML document Namespace declarations The XML declaration The Doctype Declaration An example DTD file (start of) Relax NG equivalent (start of) Relax NG equivalent Second exercise What is a schema for? Some typical scenarios The T E what? Goals of the TEI TEI Deliverables Legacy of the TEI