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What are all the different versions of XML?

The Map of Early Modern London is a TEI P5 XML project; all of our documents are encoded according to the P5 Guidelines and validate against the complete TEI schema (usually referred to as tei_all), as well as our own, much more restrictive, project schemas. This is a big step towards long-term digital curation and interoperability. However, we would also like our files to be used by as many other scholars as possible. To encourage this, we provide each of our files in a number of different formats, accessible from the See XML menu, as explained below. We expect to add new XML versions to the list of output formats in the future.

Original XML

This is the XML document as our encoders see it, incorporating a range of features which are unique to our project, such as private URI schemes and internal project links. This version of the file will be useful for people who want to see how our project works, and in particular how all the components of our document collection relate to each other.

Standard XML

This is a version of the document in which a lot of project-specific encoding practices have been replaced by more conventional encoding strategies. For example, where the Original XML version of a file might have a link encoded using a private URI scheme, like this:
<name ref="mol:CAMP1">James Campbell</name>
the Standard XML version would replace this with an explicit link to a specific location in a file:
<name ref="PERS1.xml#CAMP1">James Campbell</name>

Standalone XML

The examples above show the use of a link between resources in one document and resources in another document in the project (in this case, the personography). However, we know that there are many situations in which it is helpful to have a document which is not dependent on external resources like this; for example, if you are a novice encoder learning to work with TEI or with a related technology such as XSLT, it may be useful for you to have a version of the document which does not refer to other files that you have to find and download. Therefore in the Standalone XML version of the document, the required external resources are (wherever possible) imported into the file and linked internally; so using the same example above, you would see:
<name ref="#CAMP1">James Campbell</name>
and elsewhere in the file, you would find a <person> element like this:
<person xml:id="CAMP1">
  <persName type="cont">
    <reg>James Campbell</reg>
    <forename>James</forename>
    <surname>Campbell</surname>
    <abbr>JDC</abbr>
  </persName>
</person>

TEI Lite XML

TEI Lite is a special customization of TEI which is widely used in the TEI community for simple projects, beginner workshops, and other general purposes where the full weight of the TEI schema is not required. Our TEI Lite version is generated from the Standalone XML version, through a transformation which simplifies the encoding to allow only elements and attributes used in TEI Lite. This version is also, therefore, a standalone version.

TEI simplePrint XML

TEI simplePrint is a recent customization developed for the TEI, aimed at providing a straightforward set of tags, attributes and encoding practices suitable for early modern printed texts. Our TEI simplePrint version is generated from the Standalone XML version, through a transformation which simplifies the encoding to allow only elements and attributes used in TEI simplePrint. This version is also, therefore, a standalone version.

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MLA citation

Holmes, Martin D. XML Outputs. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml_outputs.htm.

Chicago citation

Holmes, Martin D. XML Outputs. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml_outputs.htm.

APA citation

Holmes, M. D. 2022. XML Outputs. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/xml_outputs.htm.

RIS file (for RefMan, RefWorks, EndNote etc.)

Provider: University of Victoria
Database: The Map of Early Modern London
Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

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TEI citation

<bibl type="mla"><author><name ref="#HOLM3"><surname>Holmes</surname>, <forename>Martin</forename> <forename>D.</forename></name></author> <title level="a">XML Outputs</title>. <title level="m">The Map of Early Modern London</title>, Edition <edition>7.0</edition>, edited by <editor><name ref="#JENS1"><forename>Janelle</forename> <surname>Jenstad</surname></name></editor>, <publisher>U of Victoria</publisher>, <date when="2022-05-05">05 May 2022</date>, <ref target="https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml_outputs.htm">mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml_outputs.htm</ref>.</bibl>

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