{"id":1415,"date":"2015-10-02T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uahost.uantwerpen.be\/bdmp\/?page_id=1415"},"modified":"2016-11-18T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:45:34","slug":"4-validation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/the-tags\/4-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we\u00a0explained in the Elements and Tags<\/a> page of our General Remarks<\/a> section, it is not enough for your XML to be\u00a0well-formed<\/strong>, it\u00a0also has to be\u00a0valid<\/strong>. This means that\u00a0it has to conform to a specific\u00a0validation schema<\/strong>. The all-encompassing schema that the TEI has developed for this purpose is tei_all. But, as we explained in First Things First: Markup<\/a>, we don't use all the TEI's tags at the BDMP. This makes the tei_all schema too heavy and self-contradictory for our purposes. To solve this problem, Lou Burnard encourages encoders to develop more limited, project-specific customizations of the TEI schema in his recent monograph\u00a0What is the Text Encoding Initiative<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>In addition, such\u00a0custom schemata can be used to indicate where the project deviates from the TEI, and to provide useful encoding suggestions in XML editors with on-the-fly validation like\u00a0oXygen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the BDMP, we developed our custom schema through Roma<\/a>.\u00a0This generates an ODD ('One Document Does it all') document in XML that includes all the necessary validation information, as well as a detailed description of all the (TEI-compliant) tags that are used. Because we use RelaxNG schemata to validate our XML, we used\u00a0OxGarage<\/a> to transform that 'ODD document' into a 'RelaxNG compact schema'. Both files can be downloaded by clicking on the button below. If you want, you can use the ODD file to generate different outputs through OxGarage yourself.<\/p>\n

Please note, however, that we use this schema for\u00a0validation purposes only<\/strong>. For a more detailed and nuanced\u00a0explanation of which tags we use where, and why, please refer to the Encoding Manual itself – and especially its section on The Tags<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One of the places where the BDMP's schema deviates from the TEI, is that it allows plain text to be written in side <space><\/code> elements. If you want to know why we felt this deviation was necessary, please refer to '"(Hiatus in MS.) Towards a TEI Compliant Typology of Textual Lacunae in Samuel Beckett's Works'<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As we\u00a0explained in the Elements and Tags page of our General Remarks section, it is not enough for your XML to be\u00a0well-formed, it\u00a0also has to be\u00a0valid. This means that\u00a0it has to conform to a specific\u00a0validation schema. The all-encompassing schema that the TEI has developed for this purpose is tei_all. But, as we explained in First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":462,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1415","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions\/1465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdmpmanual.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}