Beyond TEI – Digital Editions with XPath and XSLT for the Web and in LaTeX (workshop)

Course Overview

The workshop addressed a central challenge of digital scholarly editing: going beyond one’s TEI-XML data, i.e. transforming TEI-encoded texts into formats suitable for publication and interaction. Building on the now increasingly wide-spread knowledge of TEI for scholarly editing amongst many Humanities scholars, participants explored how XPath and XSLT can be used to navigate, query, and transform XML documents into both web-based and print-oriented outputs.

Using practical examples from digital editing, the workshop introduced methods for generating HTML and LaTeX representations from a single TEI source, illustrating the principles of sustainable and reusable scholarly publishing workflows. This approach is in accordance with the single source principle, in which multiple publication formats are generated from the same underlying data.

Workshop materials can be found here.

This invited two-day workshop was held at Harvard University in 2022 and organised by Jonas Hermann with support from the Harvard Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop and the Committee on Medieval Studies.