Preliminary Reading List

Course Schedule

Monday:

1. Introduction to the Course
2. Background to the History of Books and Printing
   • History of the Book Seminar, Richard Clement (Kansas)
   • Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
3. Background to the History of Electronic Texts and Publishing
4. Introduction to XML:
   • Virginia's "XML for fun and profit"
   • XML Key Points
   • "A Gentle Introduction to XML
5. The Text Encoding Initiative

Tuesday:

1. More XML and TEI
2. Mark-Up Exercises
3. Document Type Definition (DTD)
4. Parsing Exercises

Wednesday:

1. Cascading Stylesheets (CSS):
   • CSS Key Points
   • Miloslav Nic's CSS1 Reference
2. CSS Exercises
3. Sidebar: HTML, XHTML, and XML
4. Afternoon Digital Image Workshop

Thursday:

1. XSL Transformations:
   • Chapt. 17, "XSL Transformations," XML Bible
2. XSLT Exercises
3. Afternoon Consultation With E-Text Centre

Friday:

1. Putting It All Together and Putting It On-Line