Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities

Schedule

Thursday 8 March: Rockefeller Library Conference Room

Session 0, 09:00–09:30: Welcome and introductions

Session 1, 09:30–10:15: Gameplan; overview (slides: HTML, Slidy); group transformation

Session 2, 10:30–12:00: Navigating the XML tree and selecting nodes: XPath path expressions (slides: HTML, Slidy); executing an XSLT program (slides: HTML, Slidy)

Lunch on your own; restaurants

Session 3, 13:30–15:00: XSLT template paradigm (slides: HTML, Slidy), built-in rules (slides: HTML, Slidy)

Session 4, 15:15–17:00: Hands-on

Dinner on your own (or perhaps as a group, TBD)

Friday 9 March: Rockefeller Library Conference Room

Session 5, 09:00–10:15: Operators, functions (slides: HTML, Slidy)

Session 6, 10:45–12:00: Predicates (slides: HTML, Slidy), values

Lunch on your own; restaurants

Session 7, 13:30–15:00: Storing information—variables (unused slides: HTML, Slidy); generating output (constructors, including attribute value templates) (unused slides: HTML, Slidy). We actually covered only one constructor, namely <xsl:attribute, and using an identity transform, for which see also a wiki page that discusses a TEI-specific version and a more efficient version.

Session 8, 15:30–17:00: CSS

Dinner on your own (or perhaps as a group, TBD)

Saturday 10 March: 169 Angell Street, room 202

Session 9, 09:00–09:30: quiz

Session 9, 09:30–10:00: Conditionals (slides: HTML, Slidy), and multiple-use templates (mode=) (slides: HTML, Slidy)

Session 10, 10:15–12:00: Keys (Slides: HTML, Slidy)

Lunch on your own; restaurants

Session 11, 13:30–15:00: Grouping (Slides: HTML, Slidy)

Session 12, 15:00–16:00: Wrap-up (HTML, Slidy), final questions, and discussion

Bibliography

Many slides and handouts refer to the page or chapter of the reference work that we personally use:

Kay, Michael. XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer’s Reference. 4th edition. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley/Wrox, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-470-19274-0

References to “Kay” are to this book.

Resources

• sample TEI data file #1: WordHoard Hamlet
• sample TEI data file #2: gazateer of the Colonial Despatches of B.C. and Vancouver Island
• first toy XSLT program: first.xsl
• second toy XSLT program: second.xsl
• XHTML crib sheet: HTML, TEI
• CSS crib sheet: HTML, TEI

The resource page has links to all the slide sets (whether used in this workshop or not), interesting web sites we may have shown, and useful TEI links. The general WWP workshop materials for download page may be of interest, too.

Instructor contact information

Send mail to David or Syd.