Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities

Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities
March 8-10, 2012
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Instructors:
Syd Bauman, Brown University
David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh

Cost: $450 ($300 for TEI members and students)
Registration deadline: March 1, 2012

XSLT is the power tool of the XML world. For digital humanists familiar with XML languagesTEI, EAD, XHTML, and othersXSLT makes it possible to transform, manipulate, and publish your data in extraordinarily flexible ways. This seminar will introduce participants to the essential concepts of XSLT in a digital humanities context, dealing with real-world textual data and the complex encoding languages we work with. Working from templates, participants will develop stylesheets that explore the basic capacities of XSLT, and will learn how to read and reverse engineer other people's stylesheets to develop their skills.

This three-day intensive workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental concepts of XSLT, the power tool of the XML world, focusing on the needs and data of digital humanists. Participants will develop stylesheets that explore the basic capacities of XSLT, and will learn how to read and reverse engineer other people's stylesheets to develop their skills. Familiarity with the TEI and XML is assumed.

For more information, or to register for the workshop:
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project