xTagger: a new approach to authoring document-centric XML

ABSTRACT

The process of authoring document-centric XML documents in humanities disciplines is very different from the approach espoused by the standard XML editing software with the data-centric view of XML. Where data-centric XML is generated by first describing a tree structure of the encoding and then providing the content for the leaf elements, document-centric encodings start with content which is then marked up. In the paper we describe our approach to authoring document-centric XML documents and the tool, xTagger, originally developed for this purpose within the Electronic Boethius project [2], otherwise enhanced within the ARCHway project [5], an interdisciplinary project devoted to development of methods and software for preparation of image-based electronic editions of historic manuscripts.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Format and notation

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Markup languages; Hypertext/hypermedia

General Terms:
Design, Management

Keywords:
XML maintenance, editor design, text tagging