XML Day
Venue: The Endangered Languages Archive, R201
Co-ordinators: David Nathan and Ed Garrett
27 October 2006, 10am - 5pm
Last updated: 21 October 2006
The day will consist of a mix of tutorial, practical, and discussion sessions, including group work and problem solving.
The workshop will provide participants with opportunities to:
- learn about the history, purpose, and formalism of XML
- understand the applications, strengths, and weaknesses of XML
- see how XML can be applied to linguistic data
- gain basic hands on experience with designing, "reading",
evaluating, and editing XML
- learn about technologies that
are closely related to and used in conjunction with XML
Pre-reading and preparatory exercises are
now available from ELAR. It is essential that you
attempt these before the workshop.
Program (provisional)
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
Roots,
principles and formalism. Lookahead to architecture.
Namespaces and Unicode. Workflow. Discussion of preparatory
material. |
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Introduction
to Oxygen. Practical exercises on document marking up
and well-formedness |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
Break |
| 11:40 - 12:40 |
Constraining
document grammar: DTD and Schema. Constructing DTDs.
XPath and XQuery. |
| 12:40 - 13:00 |
More Oxygen functions.
XPath exercises. |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch break (lunch
not supplied) |
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
XSLT and CSS,
XSL:FO |
| 14:40 - 15:20 |
XSLT exercises |
| 15:20 - 15:40 |
Break |
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Real world: office
applications and creating and manipulating XML |
| 16:20 - 17:00 |
Exercises: creating
and manipulating XML, bringing it all together |
Key:
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Classroom sessions |
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Group practical sessions |
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Breaks (GYO refreshments and lunch) |
Outline
Theory
- XML roots
- XML principles and formalism
- XML vs. relational databases
Practice
- Case studies in representing linguistic data and theories
- Good XML design
- XML editors
- The view from mobilisation
- Born-XML and marriages of convenience
- Examples of XML in linguistics: modelling interlinear glossed text, Transcriber, ELAN files
Architecture of XML-related technologies
- Constraining XML with DTDs and Schemas
- Namespaces and different XML vocabularies
- Transforming/displaying XML with XSLT, CSS, and XSL-FO
- Searching XML using XPath and XQuery
- Unicode and XML
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