XTeXT Tutorial
Do you want to build fast XML applications? Do you want to search large textbases?
XTeXT is for you, come learn how to create your own web accessible text repositories.
This is an outline of what you will get at an
XTeXT workshop.
Audience
- People who want to set up XML publications using XTeXT
- Someone who can adapt Perl
- Someone who can adapt XSLT
Ingredients
- XTeXT installed on server
- Blank accounts for the participants
- Cookbook of code templates for adapting and XSL examples
- Manual about where what is located, where code
- Reference
- Example XML text
Outline of workshop
- Overview of the application
- Setting up XTeXT - overview of installation. We can assume it is already installed.
- Setting up an account for a project
- Creating a repository
- Loading texts into it
- Checking that it is working - using the command line interface
- Creating the first response page to access repository - uses XSL
- Write a sample script to make a simple search work and return a concordance
- More complex scripts to search using XML and to return different results (this would be repeated)
- Work on scripts that use XML like "search all speeches by character"
- Work on complex results like "show entire speech"
- Using the session
- Conclusion - how it can be used as web service
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GeoffreyRockwell - 10 Feb 2006
