Advance Reading for
Introduction to XML, the TEI, and XSLT

Susan Schreibman, PhD
Digital Collections and Research Workshop
University of Maryland Libraries

While advanced reading is not strictly necessary for the workshop, reading a selection of the articles below and browsing some of the archives will give you a headstart on the material we will be covering

XML Background and General Interest Sites

• XML in Ten Easy Points
• Frequently Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language
• A Technical Introduction to XML
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Homepage
• XML and Electronic Publishing in the Humanities

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

• The TEI Consortium Home Page
• TEI Guidelines
• Robin Cover's TEI Pages
• TEI Lite: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange, a manageable subset of the full TEI encoding scheme
• Text Encoding for Interchange: a new Consortium

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT)

• Five XSLT Basics
• How does XSLT transform XML?
• Using XSLT to transform XML
• XSL Programmers
• W3Schools XSL tutorial
• W3C's working draft for XSLT 2.0
• Jeni's XML Pages
• The Versioning Machine, a software tool under development by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities that utilizes XSL transformations

Examples of XML displayed with CSS

• George L Dillon's (Washington State) encoding of Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght

Some Humanities Computing Articles

• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
• A Brief Introduction to Humanities Computing and Electronic Text
• Frequently Asked Questions about Electronic Texts
• XML Matters: TEI -- the Text Encoding Initiative by David Mertz
• A Computer is Not a Typewriter, or Getting Right with Information Technology in the Humanities by Stanley N. Katz
• Humanities Computing as Interdiscipline by Willard McCarthy
• Is There a Computer in this Class? by Susan Hockey
• Computing, Humanism, and the Coming Age of Print by Stuart Moulthrop
• American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No. 37:
  Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges— The United States Focus

Miscellaneous  Resources

• Literary Resources on the Net
• Selective Bibliography for Humanities Computing
• Arts and Humanites Data Service
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
• Irish Resources in the Humanities

Some Humanities Computing Projects

• Women Writers Project
• American Verse Project
• American Memory
• Berkeley Digital Library
• The William Blake Archive
• Perseus Project
• An Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid
• Celt Corpus of Electronic Texts
• The Model Editions Partnership
• Uncle Tom's Cabin