Introducing XML, XPath, and XSLT

Outcome: Basic understanding of XML vocabularies and the associated technologies of XPath and XSLT. You should be able to follow a simple XPath expression and understand which parts of an XML document it points to. You should be able to understand how a simple transform will change an XML document.

TEI is an XML standard that is growing as the language of choice for annotating text documents in Digital Humanities. While XML can seem bewildering with all of its angle brackets and elements, XML documents are quite simple once you spend some time with them and understand how they are structured.

You should leave this workshop with a basic knowledge of XML and some of its tools that you can use to manage XML documents.