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Digital Media Technology Week 5: XML and Presentation Peter Verhaar
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□ XML as explicit representation of implicit information □ Logical structure (OHCO) □ Semantic contents: facts and interpretations; “intelligent texts” □ Editorial annotations □ Metadata Text encoding
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ePistolarium
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Mandala Browser
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Vincent Van Gogh Letters
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□ TEI encoding is a form of descriptive markup: it mainly describes the contents (e.g. book titles, personal names, dates) □ Form is flexible; it is generally added at a later stage, via a stylesheet XML and presentation
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Stylesheet
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□ Fixing the text: books / print □ Stability of form and content □ Fixity □ Inseparability of form and content Presentation on analogue medium □ Separation of form and content □ Fluidity of form □ Lack of closure Presentation on digital medium
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Medium-neutrality TEI HTML PDF MS Word Stylesheet ePUB
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□ eXtensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations □ XSLT stylesheet contains a ‘blueprint’ for the file to be created XSLT
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XML Source XSLT Stylesheet XML Result
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Flexible presentation Please find inclosed enclosed Diplomatic edition: Critical edition:
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□ Separation of form and content □ Possibilities for filtering □ Textual analyses: calculations Advantages
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Different outputs
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Transformation to PDF □ XSL:FO (Formatting Objects) □ XSL:FO creates a “Page Design” and text can be pasted into this basic layout
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Tree diagram of an XSLT stylesheet
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<xsl:template match=“letter” >
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□ Include a template that points to the root element of the XML source. Getting started Letter from De Erven F. Bohn to W. Blackwood and sons, January 22nd, 1873 …. … XML XSLT
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… XML Source XSLT XML Result
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