TEI Publisher Learning Hub

This repository contains learning materials about TEI Publisher and related technologies (XPath and XQuery). Here you can find data and assignments we have prepared for different events.

• Online workshop Stay Home Learn TEI Publisher From Scratch. Our most comprehensive workshop, with videos and several assignments explained step by step.

• Hands-on TEI publishing workshop presented at the Edirom Summer School 2020 (September 2020).

• TEI Publisher: editions with future, workshop presented at the Digital Publishing for the Humanities: New Technologies and Ideas conference, Rome, September 2022.

• TEI Publisher: ediciones sofisticadas sin necesidad de programar, workshop in Spanish presented at the TEI Conference 2024 in Buenos Aires, October 2024.

Helpful Literature and Websites

Working with TEI Publisher requires some knowledge of TEI, basic XPath and a little CSS. If you don't know any XPath yet, we recommend to read the short introduction linked below.

XML

• Introduction to XML
• A Gentle Introduction to XML

CSS

• Mozilla MDN
• DevDocs: searchable reference of CSS features and properties

XPath

• XPath for processing XML and managing projects: DHSI 2019 course material by Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David Birnbaum
• XPath and XQuery Functions: the official W3C specification covering all standard XPath functions

TEI

• https://teibyexample.org/
• TEI Guidelines: the ultimate reference
• What is the Text Encoding Initiative?, a French translation is also available

TEI Processing Model

• Section 22.5.4.1 of the TEI Guidelines: the official specification of the TEI Processing Model
• TEI Publisher Documentation