[tei-council] You can now validate Guidelines chapters and Specs easily

[Martin Holmes]

Over the last few days Sebastian and I have been working on making it a 
bit easier for people to edit parts of the Guidelines and Specs and 
validate their work.

Previously, if you were working on a document such as a Guidelines 
chapter or an elementSpec, you had to know specifically which schema to 
validate the document with -- a standard TEI schema wouldn't do it, 
because these files are rooted on <div>s or <*Spec> elements instead of 
the normal TEI root elements. Even if you knew which file you were 
supposed to be using, validation would often fail because of various 
idiosyncracies arising out of the fragmentary nature of the files.

We have now ironed out those issues, and linked all the files in the 
repository to two schemas on Jenkins:

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jenkins/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/xml/tei/odd/p5odds.rnc

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jenkins/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/xml/tei/odd/p5odds.isosch

(one RelaxNG, one Schematron). You should now be able to edit files in 
the repo and validate the results before committing them to SVN, and 
thus to Jenkins. Those of us with full working TEI editing environments 
on Linux have always been able to find ways to validate our work, but 
now it should be much easier for everyone with an editor such as Oxygen 
on any platform to do it. So if you haven't dipped your feet into 
editing the source yet, take a look at 
<http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw20.xml> ("How to 
edit the Guidelines"). I'm going to update that page soon to add info 
about the schemas.

Cheers,
Martin



-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)