Transformation:

XPath and XSLT

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

Aims of this workshop:

 

 

  • Investigate the structure of a TEI/XML document
  • Transform and visualise our TEI/XML
  • Learn basic syntax of XSLT and XPATH
  • Create a HTML page to visualise our TEI/XML data

 

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

Transformation

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">

    <xsl:output method="xhtml"
        doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <html>
            <head>
                <title><xsl:value-of select="//title"/> 
                written by <xsl:value-of select="//author"/></title>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="title">
        <h1>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </h1>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="author">
        <p><i>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </i></p>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="stanza">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        <br/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="line">
        <div>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </div>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

An example:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language)

is a styling language for XML.

 

 

XSLT stands for XSL Transformations.

FROM XML to DIFFERENT OUTPUT

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language)

is a styling language for XML.

 

 

 Transformations

 to DIFFERENT OUTPUT

HTML

PDF

epub

XML!

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

Transformation

 

 

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

Xpath interrogates and navigateS XML documents

 

xslt depends on it

 

oxygen supports both languages

 

 

 

ONLY ONE SLIDE TO BOTHER YOU WITH HTML

The <html> element is the root element of an HTML page

The <head> element contains meta information about the document

The <title> element specifies a title for the document

The <body> element contains the visible page content

The <h1> element defines a large heading

The <p> element defines a paragraph

...ONE MORE THING!

A web page is always made with more than one language.

 

When you navigate to a web page on the Internet, the browser is doing a lot of work

 

In general, the main languages are HTML, CSS, and Javascript

First exercise

Let's make our first transformation with default XSLT within oXygen!

  1. Open your XML file
  2. Let's create our first SCENARIO 

HOW makes "scenarios"

  1. click on the tool icon

HOW makes "scenarios"

2. Click on the format you would like to choose (HTML/PDF)

HOW makes "scenarios"

3.

what to do to navigate a xml DOCUMENT and transform ITS elements in something ELSE?

we are going to transform our xml into html

Navigate around the tree, selecting nodes by a variety of criteria

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

 

What is XPath?

 

XPath is a major element in the XSLT standard.

 

XPath can be used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document.

 

A language to describe how to locate a part of an XML document


Used in many XML-based technologies and tools

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

 

How XPath works

In XPath, there are seven kinds of nodes: element, attribute, text, namespace, processing-instruction, comment, and document nodes.

 

XML documents are treated as trees of nodes. The topmost element of the tree is called the root element.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>
Expression Description
nodename Selects all nodes with the name "nodename"
/ Selects from the root node
// Selects nodes in the document from the current node that match the selection no matter where they are
. Selects the current node
.. Selects the parent of the current node
@ Selects attributes 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>
Wildcard Description
* matches any element node
@* matches any attribute node
node() matches any node 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

A bare-bones path expression is similar to filesystem addressing: if the path starts with a solidus (/ aka forward slash), then it represents a path from the root; if it does not start with a solidus then it represents a path from here

/TEI/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

body

div

div

head

head

lg

lg

lg

lg

lg

lg

TEI/XML structure

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

body

div

div

head

head

lg

lg

lg

lg

lg

lg

TEI/XML structure

/body/div/

Toolbar in oXygen

Let's open the file:

Frankenstein-v1c5-transcription.xml

  

some xpath

/TEI/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/respStmt/name

Ensure the box is labelled XPath 2.0 (or XPath 3.0). Then type in

/TEI/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/respStmt/name

//p

//p

// Selects nodes in the document from the current node that match the selection no matter where they are

some xpath

//del/@hand

@ Selects attributes

some xpath

//del[@hand='overwritten']

[ ] square brackets are used to create conditions

Take all the 'del' elements with an attribute 'hand' with value 'overwritten'

some xpath

count(//del[@type='overwritten'])

xpath has function

What is a function?

In programming, a named section of a program that performs a specific task

ancestor
ancestor-or-self
attribute
child
descendant
descendant-or-self
following
following-sibling
namespace
parent
preceding
preceding-sibling
self

axes

axis::node

 

section/child::title


title/parent::section

 

The node matched is the one at the end of the path

Syntax

examples

xslt

(eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

Transformation

 

 

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<poem>
     <head>Chapter 7th</head>
     <author></author>
    <div type="poem">
     <l>It was on a dreary night of Novembe</l>
</poem>		 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
   <meta/>
 </head>
<body>
   <h1>Untitled</h1>
   <p>It was on a dreary night of Novembe</p>
   </body>
</html>

XML

HTML

XML HTML
<TEI>
      ...
       <body>
          <text>
            <body>
             
            </body>
         </text>
       </body>
</TEI>		 <html>
     <head>
      <head>
      <body>
         
      </body>
</html>
 

xslt

 

XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is a styling language for XML. XSLT stands for XSL Transformations.

Make a new file: File > New..

XML declaration

 

namespace

 

XML Namespaces provide a method to avoid element name conflicts.

 

XML standard way to use two or more XML vocabularies


In XSLT there are at least two vocabularies (can be more):
                      XSLT
                      HTML

Namespaces

tei Namespace

<xsl:output/>

<xsl:output method=" HTML "> 

 

The <xsl:output> element defines the format of the output document.

<xsl:template>

The <xsl:template> element is used to build templates.

 

The match attribute is used to associate a template with an XML element. The match attribute can also be used to define a template for the entire XML document. The value of the match attribute is an XPath expression (i.e. match="/" defines the whole document).

 

<xsl:template match="node">
[materials to include before node's content]
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
[materials to include after node's content]
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node">
[materials to include before node's content]
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
[materials to include after node's content]
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template>

<xsl:apply-templates>

  • Indicates where to put the node matched by the template
  • In process the node an all its content (other nodes included!)

1 instruction:

 

Transform the element root <TEI> into <html>

EXERCISE

Add to your xslt the template that matches with your root element:

 <xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
        <html>
            <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
 </xsl:template>

Add some more instructions:

 

The element XML <head> into the element HTML <h2>

<xsl:template match="//tei:head">
        <h2>
           <ins><xsl:apply-templates/></ins>
        </h2>
</xsl:template>

HTML tags

The <h1> to <h6> tags are used to define HTML headings.

<ins>...</ins> underline the text:

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp

Add some more instructions:

The element XML <p> into the element HTML <p>

    <xsl:template match="//tei:p">
        <p><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
    </xsl:template>

HTML

The <p> in TEI is the same in HTML <p> > paragraph

 

You can also use <br/> stands for line break in HTML

Create a scenario with your XSLT!

Create a scenario with your XSLT!

Create a scenario with your XSLT!

Create a scenario with your XSLT!

Create a scenario with your XSLT!

file XML

file XSLT

SAXON VERSION 9

(software)

Create a scenario with your XSLT!

Create a scenario with your XSLT!

Add some more instructions:

 

The element XML <lb> into the element HTML <br/>

    <xsl:template match="//tei:lb">
        <xsl:apply-templates/><br/>
    </xsl:template>

Add some more instructions:

 

The element XML <del> into the element HTML <s>

<xsl:template match="tei:del">
        <s><xsl:apply-templates/></s>
    </xsl:template>

HTML tags

 

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp

Add some more instructions:

 

The element XML <add> into the element HTML <sup/>

<xsl:template match="tei:add">
        <sup><xsl:apply-templates/></sup>
    </xsl:template>

Add some more instructions:

 

The element XML <hi> into the element HTML <sup>

<xsl:template match="tei:hi[@rend='sup']">
        <sup><xsl:apply-templates/></sup>
    </xsl:template>

Add some more instructions:

 

The element XML <u> into the element HTML <br/>

<xsl:template match="tei:hi[@rend='u']">
        <ins><xsl:apply-templates/></ins>
    </xsl:template>

add 'Bootstrap' css

  1. Divide the page in two.
  2. We are going to use the Bootstrap framework (https://getbootstrap.com/ )

 

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>

add 'Bootstrap' css



<xsl:template match="tei:TEI">
  <html>
    <head>
      <link rel="stylesheet" 
            href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>
      <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
    </head>
    <body>
                [....]
    </body>
 </html>
</xsl:template>

Handling attributes in XSLT

Attributes in the source (XML)

 

Attributes in the output (HTML)

 

Attributes in both source and output

Handling attributes in XSLT

<facsimile>

   <graphic url="myImg.gif">myImg.gif</graphic>

</facsimile>

<img> 
<xsl:attribute name="src">   
      <xsl:value-of select=“figure"/> 
</xsl:attribute> 
</img>

HTML

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp

The <img> tag defines an image in an HTML page.

src URL Specifies the URL of an image

 

<xsl:attribute>

The <xsl:attribute> element replaces existing attributes with equivalent  names.

 

<xsl:attribute name=“ATTRIBUTE”>VALUE
</xsl:attribute>

<img>
    <xsl:attribute name=“src”>
	<xsl:value-of select=“image”/>    
    </xsl:attribute>
</img>

<xsl:value-of select="node"/>

The <xsl:value-of> element can be used to extract the value of an XML element and add it to the output stream of the transformation:

<img width="600" height="600">
    <xsl:attribute name="src">
      <xsl:value-of select="//tei:facsimile/tei:graphic/@url"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
</img>

 

DARIAH tutorial to learn Xpath and Xslt:

 

https://teach.dariah.eu/course/view.php?id=32&section=6 

 

W3SCHOOLS

 

XPATH - https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp 

XSLT - https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xsl_intro.asp 

Resources:

Many thanks!

Contacts: @tizmancinelli

tiziana.mancinelli@unive.it

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