Introduction to Literary Text Analyis Using XML

for English 500

Stewart Arneil and Greg Newton (University of Victoria HCMC)

• The presentation (HTML format)
• Material for Creating the Sonnet 130 document:
  • sonnet 130 image (source image, source info)
  • sonnet 130 plain text transcription of image
  • DTD used to enforce valid markup of verse
  • XML data file template validated with DTD
  • sonnet 130 XML data file validated with DTD
  • cascading style sheet used to style presentation of XML data file
  • sonnet 130 XML data file with styling applied
• Other Files Related to Presentation:
  • HTML file depicting sonnet 130 as a set of contained boxes
  • XML data file for simple note
  • DTD file for simple note
• Acronyms:
  • CSS : Cascading Style Sheet (for presenting xml elements in a browser)
  • DTD : Document Type Descriptor (ruleset that specifies a valid XML file)
  • HTML : HyperText Markup Language (for web pages)
  • TEI : Text Encoding Initiative (consortium that writes DTDs)
  • XHTML : XML-compliant version of HTML (in current use)
  • XML : eXtensible Markup Language