Oddbyexample

Synopsis

This utility attempts to work out the minimal TEI customization needed to validate a collection of files. The XSLT (version 2) stylesheet which traverses a nominated directory tree looking for *.xml files which have <TEI> or <teiCorpus7gt; root elements. It analyzes the collection of elements and attributes in the resulting corpus, and compares that to the whole of TEI P5. An ODD file is generated which:

• loads the required modules
• deletes any elements which are not used
• deletes any attributes (including class attributes) which are not used by each element
• for every attribute which has a TEI "data.enumerated" datatype, constructs a closed <valList> enumerating the values actually used.

From this you can construct a target schema.

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System requirements

Memory capacity is an issue. It's not going to read a giant corpus without you have a big load of memory to assign to Java.

Source code and licensing

open source

Support for TEI

Limitations:

• deriving simplified content models (beyond what Roma already does)
• adding new elements and deriving a content model
• dealing with non-TEI namespaces
• generating attribute datatypes with complex regexps
• working out Schematron constraints etc

Language(s)

XSLT

Documentation

The script assumes you have the TEI package which has a file called "/usr/share/xml/tei/odd/p5subset.xml". If you don't have that, grab http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/odd/p5subset.xml, put the file somewhere, and add a "tei" parameter to point at it.

Here's a sample command to run it:

saxon -o my.odd oddbyexample.xsl oddbyexample.xsl corpus=/wherever/you/have/yourfiles/

How to download or buy

Grab getfiles.xsl and oddbyexample.xsl from Sourceforge (http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/Stylesheets2/tools2/)