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Developing Drupal publications to support standards-based XML

Customize your Drupal installation to support the publication of TEI (or other) XML documents

Garrick Bodine (garrick.bodine@gmail.com), Information Technology Manager, Penn State University

Garrick Bodine is an Information Technology Manager in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Penn State University.

Stephanie Schlitz (sschlitz@gmail.com), Linguistics Professor, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Stephanie Schlitz is a Linguistics Professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She collaborates on several ongoing XML-based projects.

Summary: Academic and corporate clients seeking digital journals or other types of web publications regularly require platforms that support standards-based XML. This tutorial explains how to customize a Drupal implementation to develop publications that enable editors, authors, and users to submit and edit content in standards-based XML, where the standard can be enforced using server-side validation settings. For illustrative purposes, the discussion references TEI XML, the markup standard in widespread use in academia.

Date: 08 Feb 2011
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (803 KB | 33 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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This tutorial illustrated how to customize a Drupal installation to support the publication of TEI (or other) XML documents. You should now be prepared to install Drupal and to configure the XML Content and CCK modules and to create content types that support and validate XML input.

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