Intensive Introduction to TEI

Julia Flanders, Brown University (Julia_Flanders@Brown.edu)
Syd Bauman, Brown University (Syd_Bauman@Brown.edu)

Templates

Don't be alarmed at the error messages you get when you click on these links; your browser won't necessarily display the files, but you can still save them ("Save as…").

• Template for TEI Lite documents
• Template for full TEI, large header
• Template for CSS

Element List & Samples

• Glossed list of elements for use in exercises
• Exercises
• Samples

Slides

Most slides are written in a customized TEI P5 markup language that is still under development. Feel free to read (and copy, modify, etc.) the ODD customization file; feel free to look at and use the resulting schema, but it should not be modified directly. (Change the ODD file and submit it to Roma.)

1. Overview, TEI source, HTML
2. XML Basics, TEI source, HTML
3. Prose Basics, TEI source, HTML
4. Overlap, TEI source, HTML
5. Manuscripts and Physical Documents, TEI source, HTML
6. Rendition, TEI source, HTML
7. Regularization, TEI source, HTML
8. Figures, TEI source, HTML
9. Cross-references, TEI source, HTML
10. Alternative Readings, TEI source, HTML
11. P5, TEI source, HTML
12. XML Publication, TEI source, HTML
13. Wrap-up on strategic decisions, TEI source, HTML

Stylesheets

The XSLT stylesheets you need to transform TEI source into HTML are

1. Sebastian Rahtz's TEI stylesheets (we used version 5.1.3), which can be gotten from Sourceforge, and information about which can be found on the TEI website, and which come with modern versions of oXygen (in the frameworks/tei/xml/tei/stylesheet/ directory);
2. slideShow2vanilla4slides.xslt, which reads in the customized TEI source and writes out a more standard TEI temporary file; and
3. sydhtml-slides.xsl, which reads in a standard TEI slides file (the temporary file from above) and generates a set of HTML files.

We use two CSS stylesheets for the slides.

• for use when the output HTML is viewed as a slide
• for use to browse the input TEI file

XSLT Exercise

• JPEG image of letter
• XML transcription of letter
• Many people find the Zvon XPath tutorial helpful.

DTD and CSS Demonstration

• DTD
• simple instance
• simple instance, calls uselessly simple (outright ugly) CSS stylesheet
• simple instance, calls CSS stylesheet
• instance with DTD in subset
• instance just like "simple, calls CSS stylesheet", but adds a new entity reference
• same, adds 2nd entity declaration and Coke
• uselessly simple (outright ugly) CSS stylesheet
• CSS stylesheet
• RelaxNG compact syntax that constrains just as DTD does, except does better job with the price
• RelaxNG XML syntax, same as above

Links to resources and documentation

• TEI-L listserv archive. To subscribe to TEI-L, click on Join or leave the list (or change settings).
• Women Writers Project's encoding documentation
• Newton Papers Project
• DALF
• TEI tutorials and documentation
• The TEI Pizza Chef

Pictures!

If you have any pictures you'd like to contribute, let Syd know.

Not all pictures are available yet, but some are. Click here to see what's available so far.

Instructor contact information

Send mail to Julia, Syd, or Patrick.