Oxygen is a popular tool for editing and publishing XML documents and is frequently used to create Digital Editions when working with TEI XML. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to Oxygen and best practices around editing scholarly XML documents.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Access Oxygen at UBC Library
• Identify features of Oxygen’s user interface and basic configuration
• Create, edit, and save XML files using Oxygen

Schedule

0:00	Welcome & intro to Oxygen XML Editor
0:05	Brief overview of XML
0:15	Access Oxygen at UBC
0:20	Oxygen’s User Interface
0:40	Creating, opening, saving XML files
0:50	Break
1:00	Editing, validating, working with XML files
1:20	Intro to XSLT
1:40	Wrap-up and Discussion

This workshop will introduce Oxygen XML editor with an emphasis on practical use and tips and tricks to get you started and more comfortable with the software. Oxygen has thorough documentation and supplementary material, which can appear dense and complicated to beginners, but we encourage you to make use of them after the workshop when navigating your own project. For a list of recommended resources, see the Resources page of the workshop.