Last updated	2002-07-08 12:20:59 EDT
Doc Title	Text Class Documents -- Structure
Author 1	Powell, Chris
CVS Revision	$Revision: 1.6 $

Text Class Documents -- Structure

Introduction

This document lays out the elements and attributes required in all Text Class texts. It is assumed that any texts to be converted to Text Class already validate against another DTD for encoding monographic materials, such as TEI Lite, that represent corresponding structures (chapters, pages, etc.). Because of the extremely lax content modelling (almost every element is defined to permit ANY of the named elements), the Text Class DTD is useful only to ensure that the nomenclatures have been changed appropriately.

Basic Requirements

The following elements and attributes are required:

DLPSTEXTCLASS
HEADER
EDITORIALDECL with N attribute according to TEI in Libraries recommendations for encoding levels.
IDNO -- must be unique for each text in a collection, and should not contain spaces
TEXT
BODY
Nested numbered DIVs, with at least one DIV1
- Each DIV must have TYPE and NODE attributes
- All content, such as pagebreaks, should be in DIVs, not between, if at all possible
Nested numbered elements that contain themselves
- For example, NOTE, Q, HI become NOTE1, Q1, H1 containing NOTE2, etc.
NOTE1 and PTR must have N and ID attributes
- default value for N is *; IDs will be automatically assigned for elements without them

See the following example document:

<DLPSTEXTCLASS>
<HEADER>
<FILEDESC>
<TITLESTMT>
<TITLE TYPE="245">Some Book</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>Some Author</AUTHOR>
</TITLESTMT>
<EXTENT>1 600dpi TIFF G4 page image</EXTENT>
<PUBLICATIONSTMT>
<PUBLISHER>Humanities Text Initiative</PUBLISHER>
<PUBPLACE>University of Michigan</PUBPLACE>
<IDNO TYPE="dlps">acw8433.1-01.001</IDNO>
<AVAILABILITY>
<P>These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact umdl-info@umich.edu for more information.</P>
</AVAILABILITY>
</PUBLICATIONSTMT>
<SOURCEDESC>
<BIBL>
<TITLE TYPE="main">Some Book</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>Some Author</AUTHOR>
<PUBLISHER>D. Appleton and Company.</PUBLISHER>
<PUBPLACE>New York,</PUBPLACE>
<DATE>Apr 3, 1869</DATE>
</BIBL>
</SOURCEDESC>
</FILEDESC>
<ENCODINGDESC>
<PROJECTDESC>
<P>Revised with script moajrnltotextclass.pl on 2001-11-21.</P>
</PROJECTDESC>
<EDITORIALDECL N="1">
<P>This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through an automated process using the recommendations for Level 1 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file.</P>
</EDITORIALDECL>
</ENCODINGDESC>
<PROFILEDESC>
<TEXTCLASS>
<KEYWORDS>
<TERM>Equations, Abelian.</TERM>
</KEYWORDS>
</TEXTCLASS>
</PROFILEDESC>
</HEADER>
<TEXT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 NODE="acw8433.1-01.001:1">
<P>
<PB REF="00000001.tif" SEQ="00000001" RES="600dpi" FMT="TIFF6.0" FTR="UNSPEC" CNF="874" N=""/>asdfqwerwerwer <NOTE1 N="*" ID="note0001">see asdfasdft</NOTE1></P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</DLPSTEXTCLASS>