Hands-on I: simple prose

The goal of this first hands-on is just to familiarize yourself with XSLT constructs. To practice, try as many of the following as you can:

• Make a version of the prose stylesheet that handles all of the element types within the text of the prose sample (including front, soCalled etc.)
• Change your new stylesheet so that there is a horizontal rule between the frontmatter and the main body.
• Create a new version of the verse sample document that is a complete TEI document (i.e. with a teiHeader like the one in the prose sample). Then create a version of the prose stylesheet that handles this new sample document.
• Create a short test document of your own (prose or verse) and try processing it with one of the sample stylesheets. What breaks? Can you fix it?
• Add some additional encoding to one of the sample documents, and then experiment with adding one or more additional templates to its sample stylesheet to handle those elements.
• Modify one of the stylesheets so that the output includes a box of metadata.

Hands-on Practice with XSLT, slide 1 of 3

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