1. Atelier Villejuif, LAMOP, Paris mai 2008 Digital Philology from XML & XSLT to XPath 2.0 & XQuery in Medieval Transcriptions The Arts & Humanities Research Council The Roberts Fund CNRS Agence Nationale de la Recherche

2. www.python.org xmlfr.org Un laboratoire pour la philologie numérique – une bourse gagné des Fonds Roberts par Mansfield en 2007 afin de préparer les outils XML pour les chercheurs ingénieurs en Moyen Français

3. UTF-8 is an 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format It forgives non-accented characters but You must manage things when your web page has accented characters eg Georgian Commas • ii • While an ampersand or une esperluette we show as an html entity &

4. November 2007 TEI P5 Announced Full elements need an opening and a closing tag while an ‘empty’ element is complete in one tag. A full element is opened and closed While An empty element is complete within itself: t

5. November 2007 TEI P5 Announced Our empty elements, most of which Python converts from simple rules: tie t here marking the start of column b page break, here marking the start of fol. 241r The only one you will need to type in will be: soubz rire will show as 'soubz rire' in the diplomatic transcription and as 'soubzrire' in the modern edition

6. XPath 2.0 in EditiX

8. XML + XSL = HTML Web Page EditiX and Oxygen have built-in transform Processors so that you can apply XSLT scripts to your XML transcription at any time during your tagging work You cannot change the HTML web- page. It is frozen. However, it does highlight for you any potential problems

9. Our Portfolio of Essential Files transcription.xml the text you are transcribing. 4431.dtd4431.dtd is our Document Type Description which lists in alphabetic order the elementsand their attributes which we have chosen from the TEI P5 guidelines mat/table.xsl is our main transform program for the whole manuscript.xsl and for individual books. It differs from our specialised XSLT programs (which include the XSLTransform: glossary.xsl for rendering a table of glossesglossary.xsl from all those we have typed-in inline). Please be careful when downloading XSLTransform files because some systems (especially on Windows) add a further file extension of.xml after the.xsl.

10. classes.cssclasses.css is our full list of class definitions for our cascading style-sheet which renders font size and colour on the final web version. javascript.jsjavascript.js is CM's JavaScript or ECMAScript code for the interactive glosses and name pop-up windows. fleur.pngfleur.png is the triangular red notes pointer image for the web versions of the online Harley transcription: get.htmlget.html is the pilot version of our Glossary File and system which passes a link to the DMF2 at our partner laboratory ATILF.

11. But for the ‘grand public” we need a way out of the building-site

12. A Native XML Database Native, so we do not have to do any additional coding beyond our TEI P5 XML http://sligachan.lib.ed.ac.uk:8080/exist/admin/admin.xql

13. FiN charlie.mansfield à vodafone.net arnoul.vjf.cnrs.fr/actes Future Funding HERA Joint Research Programmes http://www.heranet.info/Default.aspx?ID=274 National Contacts: France - CNRS Bruno Laurioux bruno.laurioux@cnrs-dir.fr United Kingdom - AHRC Christelle Pellecuer c.pellecuer@ahrc.ac.uk