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SUMMARY:TEI 2026: Navigating and Processing Data from the TEI with XPath and XSLT
DESCRIPTION:TEI markup provides structures that are particularly useful for 
 processing data beyond what we can do with so-called “plain text”. A 
 full-day workshop allows us plenty of time to teach the pull-processing of 
 data from XML/TEI with simple\, reusable XSLT templates to represent in 
 simple TSV/CSV\, HTML tables/charts\, and (if time!) simple SVG 
 graphics.\n\nKnowing how to locate and explore data in your encoding can 
 help to learn how to work with TEI and XML generally. This half-day 
 workshop is designed for people who have some experience with TEI and seek 
 to learn how to work with XML markup for analysis and research. 
 Participants will gain a working\, practical knowledge of the query 
 language XPath and the transformation language XSLT\, and learn how these 
 can help to reduce reliance on software\, packages and plugins that may 
 become obsolete without warning. Further\, XSLT's functional programming 
 can serve as a way of articulating research questions around a document 
 data model expressed in XML.\n\nThe emphasis of our workshop is 
 ”pull-processing”\, that is\, extracting data and metadata from markup 
 documents for analysis\, as opposed to providing the reading view of a 
 digital scholarly edition. Markup in documents supplies structures and 
 contexts that are especially useful for processing data\, beyond what we 
 can do with so-called "plain text". We will demonstrate some basic XPath 
 navigation and calculation functions\, and then show how XPath is applied 
 in XSLT templates to address specific nodes that hold data of interest for 
 visualization.\n\nWe will process TEI documents composed in various 
 languages represented by our workshop members' projects\, to show that the 
 code we write is transferable to multiple projects across language and 
 cultural borders.\n\nParticipants will learn how to "pull" data from TEI 
 and output text formats required for simple online tools\, where the 
 structure of the output data is transferable to many different online 
 calculation programs and amenable to statistical processing. During the 
 workshop we will produce some simple structured documents for storing\, 
 sharing\, and visualizing data: HTML lists and tables as well as plain text 
 tabulated data (CSV or TSV files)\, and (if we have time) simple SVG bar or 
 line graphs.\n\nWe hope to process some participant-supplied XML before\, 
 during\, and after the workshop. We will carefully document the XSLT that 
 we supply during the workshop to assist participants with revising and 
 adapting the code to their own projects.\n\nThe workshop material - 
 including documentation\, exercise examples and solutions - will be made 
 available in a publicly and permanently accessible GitHub 
 repository.\n\nOutline:\n\n\n	Review and refresh understanding of XML tree 
 structures\n	Orientation to XPath\n	Teach basic XSLT to produce simple 
 outputs ready for analysis and visualization. This includes:\n	XML identity 
 transformations to make changes to your markup systematically\,\n	XML 
 transformations to HTML that apply simple "push processing": to show how to 
 work with XSLT templates that process and transform most of your 
 nodes.\n	XML transformations for "pull processing": isolating and exploring 
 data from your markup to make charts in HTML and visualizations in 
 SVG.\n	While learning XSLT\, participants gain experience with simple HTML 
 elements and structures for informational outputs. If time\, we will 
 provide orientation to SVG elements for simple 
 graphics.\n\n\nRoom/Materials Required:\n\n\n	Participants should bring 
 laptop computers if possible.\n	Instructors can provide complementary 90- 
 or 120-day licenses for the oXygen XML Editor\n\n\nThis event is in 
 partnership with SFU Library Research Commons.
LOCATION:497 - Digital Scholarship Lab\, Koerner Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Abirami Muthukumar":MAILTO:abi.muthukumar@ubc.ca
CATEGORIES:Digital Scholarship
CONTACT;CN="Abirami Muthukumar":MAILTO:abi.muthukumar@ubc.ca
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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