Introduction to XML and the TEI

This exercise, which utilizes XMetal, was developed by Susan Schreibman and given many times. The Powerpoint slides were delivered in the morning, and the afternoon consisted of a three-part exercise. If you wish to complete the exercise, you will need the WB Yeats poem that forms the basis of the exercise, and the note that goes with it. You may download all the documents onto your hard drive as a zip archive.

Morning

  1. Introduction to HTML, SGML, and XML (a general introduction to SGML, XML, and HTML, their differences and similarities)
  2. Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (general introduction to the TEI, its history, practicalities of using it, scope and philosophy)
  3. Exercise I: Encoding the Body of a TEI Document (utilises TEI Lite to encode the basic markup for a poem)
  4. Exercise II: Encoding the Header of a TEI Document (instructions on how to encode a TEI Header)
  5. Exercise III: Further encoding of the Body (encoding using attributes and content markup)
  6. Background reading: