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Download a template for editing TEI-conformant documents here (zip file: double click to unzip once you've downloaded it).

Introduction to XML markup

Presentation

What is markup?
- Print markup: parse this file
- Rudimentary markup: HTML
- semantic markup vs. presentational markup
XML markup:
- A language for defining languages!
- "Rule set" for a particular purpose: Document Type, Schema
- One very important "rule set" for scholarly editing: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Syntax of XML (much easier than Latin!):
- elements
- content
- comments ("sticky notes")

By the end of this day, every participant will validate a small XML file.

Select one Life of Nepos to work on from this list and download here.
If you have a laptop with you, install and configure a validating XML editor.
Open the TEI-template.xml file and validate it.
Look at the template; optionally, begin to look at how elements of the TEI vocabulary might be used to describe the contents of your Nepos.

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