oXygen

XML editors

There are many XML editors out there, but oXygen is one of the standard ones. Think of it as the “word processor” of XML files.

You can access it via the remote labs at UBC https://remotelabs.ubc.ca/#heading_1021

Advantage

Helps identify flaws
Has readymade TEI documents lined up

Create your first XML file in Oxygen

Open Oxygen and open “New Document”

Drop this faulty code into the editor

Input

<?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TEI XMLns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" XML:lang="en">
    <teiHeader>
       omitted
    </teiHeader>
    <text>
        <body>
            <div type="essay">
                <head First Nations places in Vancouver </head>
                <p> Yesterday, on <date> value= "August 3"</date> I came across a landmark which reminded me of the presence of the first nations. </p>
                <p> I rode along the sea wall and came across the <placeName>Welcome Figure </placeName>.
                 </p>

        </body>
    </text>
</TEI>

Input

<fileDesc>
            <titleStmt>
                <title>Bike Ride</title>
            </titleStmt>
            <publicationStmt>
                <p>not published</p>
            </publicationStmt>
            <sourceDesc>
                <p>D.Leesing</p>
            </sourceDesc>
        </fileDesc>

Time to encode this sample in oXygen

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1895-04-04/ed-1/seq-2/

Task #5

What tags do we identify, and what would the tags look like?

Solution Task #5

1 Title: The Salt Lake Herald
2 Date: Thursday, April 4 1895
3 Num page=Page 2
4 Title: Oscar Wilde’s Libel Suit
5 Subtitle: One of the most peculiar cases ever heard
6 Body of Text
7 Paragraphs

What would this look like in the element structure?

Input

                <head>The Salt Lake Herald</head>
                <placeName>Salt Lake City</placeName>,
                <date> Thursday, April 04, 1895</date>
                <head>Oscar Wilde’s Libel Suit <lb/>
                    One of the most peculiar cases ever heard <lb/>
                    Love letters to a boy </head>

All that is missing is our root element and header

Input

<?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<TEI XMLns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" XML:lang="en">
    <teiHeader>
        <fileDesc>
            <titleStmt>
                <title>Oscar Wilde’s Libel Suit</title>
            </titleStmt>
            <publicationStmt>
                <p>1895</p>
            </publicationStmt>
            <sourceDesc>
                <p> https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1895-04-04/ed-1/seq-2/</p>
            </sourceDesc>
        </fileDesc>

    </teiHeader>


    <text>
        <body>

…and let’s not forget the closing tags at the end of the document

Input

        </body>
    </text>
    </TEI>

Additional Solution Task #5

Help: fill in the information into the gaps! https://github.com/ubc-library-rc/creating-XML-files-in-oxygen/blob/main/Helper%20Oscar.XML

Complete solution: https://github.com/ubc-library-rc/creating-XML-files-in-oxygen/blob/main/OSCAR.XML

Congratulations! You successfully created your first XML file! There are so many more things to explore about XML and text encoding. Get inspired in the “Resources” Section!