University of Heidelberg: XML for Slavic philologists

Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)

Last modified: 2013-08-02

Slavic Institute, University of Heidelberg, Schulgasse 6, Komenský-Raum (R. 227)

Monday, 29 July – Friday, 2 August

Three sisters files

Beginning: chekhov.xml, chekhov.rnc
Beginning, with ID/IDREF validation: chekhov-id.xml chekhov-id.rnc
Individual acts, with schema: act1.xml, act2.xml, act3.xml, act4.xml, play.rnc
Entire play, with schema: chekhov-all.xml, chekhov-all.rnc
Who talks most about Moscow: moscow-chart.html, moscow-count.xsl
File with subjects tagged for animacy: act1_differentiation-of-subjects.xml, animacy.xsl
Create word frequency report: chekhov-word-list-2.xsl
Add English glosses:
- Create glossary from full text: make-glossary.xsl
- Glossary, with English added for three words: glossary.xml
- Add glosses to full text: gloss.xsl (note: incomplete; output HTML is invalid)
- Output HTML (invalid) with glosses for three words (в, доме, прозоровых): glossed.html

Syllabus

Monday, 29 July
9:00–9:45	Introduction to digital humanities and digital text technologies Sample digital Slavic projects (Daniil Zatočnik, Karolina Pavlova, Russian fairy tales, Rusian genealogy)
9:45–10:30	Markup and XML: elements, attributes, case-sensitivity, reserved characters (< [<], > [>], & [&]) Well-formedness: root element, proper nesting, quoting attribute values, name and name-start characters The overlapping hierarchy issue Validity
10:30–10:45	Coffee break
10:45–11:00	The <oXygen/> XML editor and IDE
11:00–11:45	Document analysis (Чехов, Три сестры) Marking up a text
11:45–12:15	XML-related technologies: XML, Relax NG, Schematron, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, SVG Web technologies: HTML (XHTML, HTML5), CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Unicode
12:15–12:30	Coffee break
12:30–13:15	Marking up a text (Чехов, Три сестры, continued)
13:15–14:30	Lunch (on your own)
14:30–17:00	Practice and individual consultations (optional)
Tuesday, 30 July
9:00–9:15	Review: XML, descriptive markup, document analysis, well-formedness (root element, proper nesting), element, attribute
9:15–9:40	Participant texts and research (optional)
9:40–10:25	Document analysis and encoding (Чехов, Три сестры or participant data files)
10:25–10:45	Coffee break
10:45–12:10	Validity Introduction to Relax NG (see Introduction to Relax NG) Document analysis, markup, and schema development for Chekhov or participant data files
12:10–12:30	Coffee break
12:30–13:15	Document analysis, markup, and schema development for Chekhov or participant data files
13:15–14:30	Lunch (on your own)
14:30–17:00	Practice and individual consultations (optional)
Homework	Read Introduction to Relax NG, What can XPath do for me? and XSLT basics Continuing marking up Chekhov or your own materials (optional)
Wednesday, 31 July
9:00–9:20	Review: Validity, Relax NG
9:20–9:30	Old Believer texts (Katja)
9:30–10:00	XPath, part 1: introduction and path expressions
10:00–10:25	XPath, part 2: axes
10:25–10:45	Coffee break
10:45–11:10	XPath, part 3: predicates
11:10–12:10	XPath, part 4: functions
12:10–12:30	Coffee break
12:30–13:15	Introduction to XSLT
13:15–14:30	Lunch (on your own)
14:30–17:00	Practice and individual consultations (optional)
Homework	Read carefully the texts you just skimmed for today: What can XPath do for me? and XSLT basics Read The XPath functions we use the most Explore w3schools, a convenient place to look up information about XPath functions Continuing marking up Chekhov or your own materials (optional)
Thursday, 1 August
9:00–9:20	Taking stock: XML, Relax NG, XPath, XSLT, and XHTML
9:20–10:00	Making a web page (XHTML) by hand (see HTML basics)
10:00–10:20	Review: XSLT basics (framework, template rules, `<xsl:apply-templates>`)
10:25–10:45	Coffee break
10:45–11:00	Using XSLT to transform XML to XHTML: what shall we build?
11:00–11:30	Using XSLT to transform XML to XHTML: superstructure and boilerplate
11:30–11:20	Using XSLT to transform XML to XHTML: adding content
12:10–12:30	Coffee break
12:30–13:15	Using XSLT to transform XML to XHTML: finishing the transformation
13:15–14:30	Lunch (on your own)
14:30–17:00	Practice and individual consultations (optional)
Homework	Read (yes, again!): What can XPath do for me?, XSLT basics, and The XPath functions we use the most Decide what you’d like to do for a transformation tomorrow Continuing marking up Chekhov or your own materials (optional)
Friday, 2 August
9:00–9:30	Word frequencies in The three sisters
9:30–10:25	XSLT practice (task to be determined)
10:25–10:45	Coffee break
10:45–12:10	XSLT practice (task to be determined)
12:10–12:30	Coffee break
12:30–13:15	XSLT practice (task to be determined)
13:15–14:30	Lunch (on your own)
14:30–17:00	Practice and individual consultations (optional)