WLA Preconference Workshop: XML for Libraries

October 28th, 2003

School of Information Studies at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Instructor: Wooseob Jeong

Email: wjj8612@uwm.edu

Power Point Slides | Exercise Materials

* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher should be used for optimal result of exercises.
 

Part 1

What is XML?

Separation of presentation information from contents

Presentation information

• CSS
• XSLT

Minimum requirements

• XML declaration: <?xml version="1.0" ?>
• pairs of tags
• Well-formedness

Restaurant Menu Exercise

• http://www.geocities.com/kerrik0213/ichiban.xml
• http://www.uwm.edu/~dhedberg/MENU.xml

Part 2

XSLT

Good examples by Ron Gilmour ( http://web.utk.edu/~rgilmou1/xml4lita/ )

Multiscript/multilingual support

• International Bible Exercise
• International Bibles with CSS ( CSS file )
• International Bibles with XSLT ( XSLT file )

SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language)

• Audio-captioning Exercise (RealText) - Example
• RealNetworks' Guide: http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realone/ProductionGuide/HTML/realpgd.htm

Part 3

DTD (Document Type Definition)

• Element - tags
• Attribute - properties in tags
• Entity - special characters

Examples of DTDs

• XHTML
• TEI
• EAD
• SMIL
• RDF-DC

Validation

• Validation Tool Example

Letter Transcript Exercise (TEI)

• How to transcribe a letter in TEI
  • http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei/uvatei.html
    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei/DocEdit.html
    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei/uvatei10.html
• Examples
  • http://www.uwm.edu/~semyers/letter/tei_letter.xml
  • http://www.uwm.edu/~sandra/letterTEI.xml
  • http://www.uwm.edu/People/bdgraham/letter.xml
  • http://www.uwm.edu/~dhedberg/XMLLOVELETTER.xml
     

Part 4

Other important parts in XML

• XSL-FO (PDF)
• URI
• XLink
• XPointer
• Namespace
• Schema

E-Book in Various Formats

• Microsoft (free) plus Voice Reader Option
• Adobe (free)
• Palm (free)

E-Book Authoring Tools

• Microsoft (free)
• Adobe
• Palm (free)

Free E-book archives

• Plain text files at Project Gutenberg
• E-text Center at University of Virginia
• Class Projects in School of Information Studies at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Related Information

Recommended web sources on XML

• W3C XML
• Getting Started with XML by Eric Morgan
  • http://www.infomotions.com/musings/getting-started/
  • Entire book in PDF
• XML is Easy
  • http://xmliseasy.com/

Recommended books on XML

• XML Bible by Elliotte Rusty Harold
• ABCs of XML by Norman Desmarais
• Putting XML to Work in the Library by Dick Miller and Kevin Clarke

Free web hosting supporting XML/XSL (many don't support XSL)

• http://free.prohosting.com/ (Wooseob's Example)
• http://www.1asphost.com (Wooseob's Example)
• http://www.greatnow.com/ (Wooseob's Example)

The content of this CD is available at the following URL.

• http://www.sois.uwm.edu/jeong/wla-xml