1. What is xMod?
xMod is: a desktop application (at the moment!) which can transform a repository of XML into a completely finished website
Paul Spence, Paul Vetch Centre for Computing in the Humanities King’s College London

2. We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

11. xMod Task-based workflow TEI xml files HTML output ‘Control’ files
XML Encoder
xMod
‘Control’ files
XSL Programmer
Project Manager
Image/CSS skin
Web / Graphic Designer

12. xMod xMod Markup TEI xml files HTML output Markup ‘Control’ files
Image/CSS skin

13. In-house guidelines for using TEI to create websites
Markup
In-house guidelines for using TEI to create websites

15. xMod Publication and Programming
TEI xml files
HTML output
Programming
xMod
Publication
‘Control’ files
Image/CSS skin

16. Base layer + customisations
options
RSS
plans
submenus
indices
DB content
Base layer

17. We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

18. We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

19. We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

21. We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

22. We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

23. We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

24. Page / Asset Management
TEI xml files
HTML output
xMod
Publication:
Files and folders
Navigation
Image information
‘Control’ files
Image/CSS skin

25. Common transformations
Flexibility: groups or all document collection
Common transformations
Process 1
Process 2
Process 3
general
scholarly
primary
Specific 1
Specific 2
Specific 3

26. Support for Database Integration
We saw earlier how one of the basic premises of XML is that you can transform the core data, stored in a single ‘authoritative’ source version, many times
Typically, in our projects we need to create the following from our source data:
Basic view
Printable view
Indices of documents by author/title
Thematic indices, of keywords that appear
Encoders’ checking pages

27. xMod Look and Feel TEI xml files HTML output ‘Control’ files
Personality Pack
Image/CSS skin

28. Framework of Content Elements

30. Framework of Content Elements
Current version: 1.3
Next version: 2.0:
Already well under development
Desktop version and dynamic, Cocoon based server version
Integrated full text and semantic searching facilities
Greater standards compliance (XHTML 1.1, XSLT 2, TEI P5)
Configuration of application and personality via new Web Application (work in progress)
Package up and document for Open Source release