DHSI XSLT course

Hi all,

Syd Bauman and I will be teaching an Introduction to XSLT for Digital 
Humanists course at DHSI in Victoria 12-16 June this year. If you're 
involved in a TEI text encoding project and just beginning to wonder 
what you might be able to do with your encoded texts once you've created 
them, this course is for you. Here's the description:

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XSLT is the power tool of the XML world. It is a computer programming 
language intended to transform one XML document (e.g., in TEI) to 
another XML document (e.g., in XHTML); furthermore, it is expressed in 
XML itself. For digital humanists familiar with XML languages like TEI, 
EAD, METS, MODS, or DocBook, and XHTML, SVG, KML, or MathML, XSLT makes 
it possible to transform, manipulate, and publish your data in 
extraordinarily flexible ways. This hands-on course will introduce 
participants to the essential concepts of XSLT in a digital humanities 
context, dealing with real-world textual data. Participants will explore 
the basic capacities of XSLT for TEI-to-TEI and TEI-to-XHTML 
transformations, writing basic transforms of their own.

Prerequisites: Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application or 
equivalent. That is, fluency in XML and TEI is assumed. Familiarity with 
XHTML very helpful. Familiarity with CSS or JavaScript helpful.

Consider this offering to build on: Text Encoding Fundamentals and their 
Application; Conceptualising and Creating a Digital Documentary Edition, 
and more!
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More information is available here:

<http://dhsi.org/courses.php>

We're course #49. Register soon to be sure of a place!

All the best,
Martin