Exercise 1
This first exercise is just to get comfortable with inserting TEI elements. Use poem sample 1.
1. In the Oxygen XML editor, navigate to the textbase/training directory and open the training_template.xml file.
2. Save a copy (using "Save as...") under a different name, using your surname (e.g. smith.training.xml) so that we know whose file it is.
3. Validate the file (using the red check-mark icon, or type Command-shift-v). You should get two error messages, both referring to information that is missing from the <change> element. Fill in the date and your name key if you have one; now your file should be valid. (If you don't have a name key yet, don't worry about it.)
4. Inside the <body> element, you're going to encode the poem from the sample text. The TEI elements you're going to need are:
- <div>: a division of the text, used to represent whatever kinds of major structural pieces (poems, letters, essays, chapters, etc.) the text is divided into. The @type attribute is required and it indicates what type of division is being represented, using a controlled vocabulary. You can look up the permitted values in the WWP documentation.
- <lg>: line group, a group of verse lines (e.g. a poem, a stanza). Line groups can nest inside one another. The @type attribute on <lg> is required and it describes the type of line group using a controlled vocabulary. You can look up the permitted values in the WWP documentation.
- <head>: a heading (of a poem, a section, a list, any kind of heading at any level).
- <l>: an individual verse line
- <quote>: for material that is quoted from outside the text
- <pb>: for page breaks. The @n attribute indicates what page begins at this break.
- <emph>: for words that are emphasized to give them rhetorical weight
- <hi>: for words that are highlighted for purely decorative reasons (e.g. because they are the first word of the text)
- For the time being, ignore the appearance of the document (italics, etc.); we'll cover those later on.
