What is x Mod x Mod is a

What is x. Mod? x. Mod is: a desktop application (at the moment!) which can transform a repository of XML into a completely finished website Paul Spence, Paul Vetch Centre for Computing in the Humanities King’s College London

Task-based workflow TEI xml files HTML output • XML Encoder x. Mod ‘Control’ files • XSL Programmer • Project Manager Image/CSS skin • Web / Graphic Designer

x. Mod Markup TEI xml files Markup HTML output x. Mod ‘Control’ files Image/CSS skin

Markup • In-house guidelines for using TEI to create websites

x. Mod Publication and Programming TEI xml files HTML output x. Mod ‘Control’ files Publication Programming Image/CSS skin

Base layer + customisations options submenus RSS plans indices Base layer DB content

Page / Asset Management TEI xml files HTML output x. Mod ‘Control’ files Publication: Files and folders Navigation Image information Image/CSS skin

Flexibility: groups or all document collection Common transformations Process 1 general Process 2 scholarly Process 3 primary Specific 1 Specific 2 Specific 3

Support for Database Integration

Look and Feel TEI xml files HTML output x. Mod ‘Control’ files Image/CSS skin Personality Pack

Framework of Content Elements

Framework of Content Elements Current version: 1. 3 Next version: 2. 0: • Already well under development • Desktop version and dynamic, Cocoon based server version • Integrated full text and semantic searching facilities • Greater standards compliance (XHTML 1. 1, XSLT 2, TEI P 5) • Configuration of application and personality via new Web Application (work in progress) • Package up and document for Open Source release