Course objectives An understanding of the current status and organization of the TEI A review of the coverage of TEI P5 An understanding of the customization and internationalization features of TEI P5 Practical experience in: using online tools to build and document a TEI-conformant schema using XML editing software to create new encoded texts standardize existing digital texts Using XML processing tools to search XML databases and documents convert TEI documents for Web publication

Course Summary Monday 0930: Digital Texts, XML, and TEI. (What is text anyway? How does XML represent it?) (PDF slides) 1000: Discussion: encoding text 1015: TEI contents: an overview of the modules making up TEI P5 (PDF slides) 1100: break 1130: Practical: introducing the TEI Knoppix CD, and working with an XML editor () 1230: Discussion: review of participants' encoding problems 1300: Lunch 1400: Practical: Using Roma to generate TEI customizations. () 1445: One Document Does It All: an introduction to the ODD system (PDF slides) 1530: break 1600: Discussion: solving participants' encoding problems: (PDF slides) 1630: Xaira: a different sort of TEI tool (PDF slides) 1715: Finish Tuesday 0930: Introduction to XPath (PDF slides) 1015: Exercise: using XPath () 1045: break 1115: Moving on to XQuery (PDF slides) 1200: Exercise: using XQuery () 1300: lunch 1400: Introduction to XSLT (PDF slides) 1445: Exercise: using XSLT () 1530: break 1600: The TEI XSLT stylesheets (PDF slides) 1630: Discussion: Which tool for you? 1715: Finish