Using Microsoft Word for preparing XML TEI-compliant digital editions

Boris Lehečka, Czech Language Institute, Czech Republic

TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2019

External resources

Černá, A. and Lehečka, B. (2016). Metodika přípravy a zpracování elektronických edic starších českých textů. (The Methodology of the preparation and processing of electronic editions of Old Czech texts.) [pdf] Praha: oddělení vývoje jazyka Ústavu pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i. Available at: <http://vokabular.ujc.cas.cz/soubory/nastroje/Methodics/Metodika_pripravy_a_zpracovani_elektronickych_edic_DF12P01OVV028.pdf>
eEdice. An add-in for Microsoft Word 2010 and higher, containing definitions of the paragraph and character styles and some tools facilitating the text and metadata editing. Available at: <https://vokabular.ujc.cas.cz/moduly/nastroje/e-edice/ke-stazeni>.
Digital editions available at <https://vokabular.ujc.cas.cz/moduly/edicni/seznam-edic/>. Part of Vokabulář webový: webové hnízdo pramenů k poznání historické češtiny [online]. Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., oddělení vývoje jazyka. © 2006–2019.

Presentation: Presentation (PPTX format) from the Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium 2019 in Graz.
Register: XML file with metadata about the digital editions.
Transformations: XML file with the definition of the transformation process. Whole process is represented by one or more transformation. Each transformation consists of one or more steps (i. e. XSLT transformations).
Xsl: Directory with XSLT files used during the transformation process.
Conversion: Directory with input DOCX documents, result of individual transformation steps and the final XML TEI.
- DOCX: DOCX documents (so called electronic editions)
- Input: Result of the conversion of DOCX to flat XML document (elements represents paragraph and character styles, footnotes, comments, or table).
- Temp: Result of individual transformation steps. Each DOCX file has its own directory. Each transformation, consisting of several steps, shares the same suffix in the file name.
- Output: Final XML TEI documents.