Introduction to TEI/XML by examining a whole range of ways of marking up a single sentence.

1. 20 Ways to mark up a sentence Stuart Yeates New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

3. 4 years at Oxford, working mainly in TEI

4. Several years at Victoria working party on TEI

5. Immersed in a library tradition

6. Actively building New Zealand / Māori content

7. Current member of the TEI Council

8. Who are you?

11. Medievalists (EEBO)

12. Dramatists / playwrights

15. New tag: <p>...</p> indicates that the text within the tag is a paragraph

16. This syntax is identical to that of HTML

17. Unlike HTML, the TEI version has specified semantics

19. New tag: <s>...</s> indicates that the text within the tag is a sentence

21. New tag: <phr>...</phr> indicates that the text within the tag is a phrase

22. The type and function attributes provide additional information

24. The xml:id attribute provides a unique reference for this paragraph

25. In combination with the URL at which the document is found, represents a globally unique identifier

26. Used to build replacements for “Chapter 3, page 45, line 5”

27. http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GorLaws-t1-g1-t1-body1-d1-d34.html#tei-GorLaws-t1-g1-t1-body1-d1-d34

29. New tag: <w>...</w> indicates that the text within the tag is a word

30. The type attribute tells us what kind of word

32. New tag: <name>...</name> indicates that the text within the tag is a name

33. The key attribute gives us the key into a foreign database to identify the named entity

34. Links to an authority control system

36. The xml:lang attribute indicates the language of a passage

37. “en”, “mi” very common in our collections, also “la”, “sm”, “rap”

38. Dialect, regional and temporal variations can also be encoded “en_NZ”, “mi_Trad”, “mi_Modr”

39. Used for searching and analysis

41. New tag: <foreign>...</foreign> indicates that the text within the tag is in a foreign language

42. “Foreign” defined relative to the surrounding text not the broader context.

43. The spectrum between foreign words and loan words is complex

45. <p xml:lang=&quot;mi&quot; xml:id=&quot;s001&quot;>Nō Hone tētahi hōiho.</p>

46. The corresp attribute links together two similar passages

47. Used when there are multiple representations below the work level

49. New tag: <add>...</add> indicates that the text within the tag is an addition

50. New tag: <del>...</del> indicates that the text within the tag is a deletion

52. New tag: <handNote>...</handNote> a creator in a fine-grained sense

53. The hand attribute assigns responsibility for a tag

54. The '#' character indicates a pointer to a xml:id

55. #, xml:id and xml:lang work in all modern XML

57. New tag: <unclear/> indicates that the text within the tag is a unclear or uncertain

58. Responsibility can be assigned using the hand attribute

60. New tag: <floatingText/> indicates a text quoted or embedded within another

61. Treaty of Waitangi

63. New tag: <lg/> indicates a line group

64. New tag: <l/> indicates a line

65. Poetry, drama, song, liturgy, etc

67. New tag: <rhyme/> indicates words which are important in the rhyme scheme

68. The label attribute is used to mark which sets of words rhyme with which others

69. Can use IPA labels

71. The attribute met indicates the metrical information for the line group

73. New tag: <when/> is used to synchronise media, either parallel texts or with audio, video, choreography, etc, etc.

74. Can use symbolic identifiers or relative times or absolute times

76. New tag: <g/> indicates a glyph which is special in some way.

77. Illuminated manuscripts, misprints, custom characters, etc., etc.

79. New tag: <sp/> indicates a passage of speech

80. New tag: <speaker/> indicates who is speaking

82. New tag: <bibl/> a bibliographic reference

83. <author/> and <title/> hopefully self explanatory

84. <biblStruct/> used when complete bibliographic information is available

85. Can be stored in the header and referenced in the document body

87. New tag: <ab/> is a tag like a paragraph but without the semantic baggage of a paragraph

88. New tag: <seg/> spans zero or characters but makes no semantic assumptions about hose characters

89. New tag: <anchor/> is point in the text whose marking makes no semantic assumptions

91. New tag: <xinclude:include/> includes content from a different place

92. Local files, web downloads, RSS feeds, lifting quotes directly from original, etc.,

93. Reuse, unreasonably large files, separation of fixed and dynamic content, etc.,

95. New tags: <entry><form><orth> compilation entries

96. Dictionaries, encyclopedia, lexicons, word lists, bi-lingual dictionaries, etc., etc.,

98. New tag: <note/> used for notes

99. Footnotes, sidenotes, endnotes, etc., etc.,

100. Can be nested to arbitrary depth

101. Can be painful to render

103. New tag: <char/> introduces a new character

104. New tag: <charName/> names new character

105. Invented languages, minority languages, bizarre print practices, etc.,

106. Can be painful to render

108. New tag: <pb/> indicates the placement of a page break, often links to page image

109. Milestone tag so it doesn't interrupt logical structure