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This chapter introduces readers to parsing XML in R with an emphasis on TEI encoded XML.
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Notice the different path here. The XML version of Moby Dick is located in a different sub-directory of the main “TAWR2.”
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<TEI xmlns = "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">.
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Notice that the xpath argument now includes the tei prefix.
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A node inside of another node is often referred to as a “child” node.
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As long as we are on this subject, the editors also decided that the “Etymology” and “Extracts” that come before the famous “Call me Ishmael” should not be treated as chapters either. What those sections are, exactly, is something for scholars to debate.
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L. Jockers, M., Thalken, R. (2020). Parsing TEI XML. In: Text Analysis with R. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39643-5_12
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