An Introduction to XML

Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman

2018-04-04

This tutorial outlines the fundamental rules of XML, what XML is, and how it relates to the TEI. This tutorial will also explain why your project may want to use XML, as opposed to some other type of markup system.

  1. Structure?
  2. XML Structures the World
  3. XML and TEI
  4. How do XML and the TEI fit in?
  5. XML: More Detail
  6. XML Elements
  7. Example Elements
  8. XML Attributes
  9. Anatomy of an Element
  10. XML in Detail
  11. Another sample
  12. Sample (simplified) Tree
  13. Rules for all XML documents
  14. Thought experiments to test ourselves: Well-formedness
  15. Rules for specific encoding languages
  16. Thought experiments to test ourselves: Validity — rules
  17. Thought experiments to test ourselves: Validity — problems
An Introduction to XML © 2011 Syd Bauman, Julia Flanders, and WWP This TEI-encoded XML file is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (Unported) license.