TEI Publisher 7.0.0
Version 7 of the TEI Publisher released with Open API and Markdown support along numerous other features and bugfixes.
Release Highlight: Open API
Version 7 represents the logical next step on our mission to improve interoperability, sustainability and long-term maintenance of editions created with TEI Publisher. A major redesign to the server side allowed us to expose a well-defined, clear API specification following the Open API standard. Integrated Swagger UI allows you to visualize and interact with the API’s resources. Read more in 7.0.0 Release Candidate notice.
The API can be easily extended to cover project-specific functionality.
Release Highlight: Markdown support
In addition to various XML vocabularies, like TEI or DocBook, you can
now use Markdown format. Markdown documents with .md extension will be
correctly rendered via marked library. This
feature is particularly useful for static content, like introductory
material or project news.
Release Highlight: Flexible collection configuration
Previous versions of TEI Publisher allowed the view configuration to be
specified either on the app level, through default odd, template and
related variables in modules/config.xqm, or on the document level via
processing instructions. Current version extends the application
configuration mechanism in the $config:collection-config allowing for
specifying view parameters per collection or document with arbitrary
filtering expression (e.g. only documents in a certain language or of a
particular type) without the need to change documents themselves.
Other Improvements
The webcomponent library saw a number of important bug fixes and improvements. Despite the API changes, the library is fully backwards compatible: it first checks which version of TEI Publisher is running on the server and adjusts accordingly.
Among other things we improved the component handling file uploads, introduced a way to navigate back to the parent collection of a document being viewed, switched to xml:id based navigation where available, fixed bugs in the visual ODD editor, the search component and many others.
Furthermore we have fixed some issues with DocBook configuration, introduced more sensible defaults for indexing and sorting and streamlined naming conventions of commonly customized modules. Support for nested footnotes has been improved.
Publisher 7 is available in 20 languages and we'll be happy to collaborate on extending the coverage for other, especially non-European languages. Extended FAQ section has been moved to an external site, automatically generated from markdown files stored in tei-publisher-faq repository. Quick edits are possible via GitHub, all contributions are welcome.
Upgrading
While version 7 tries to ensure that future updates will become much smoother, upgrading to 7 does still require a few manual steps, which are described in the documentation.
Get It!
TEI Publisher 7.0.0 is available as an application package on top of the eXist XML Database. Install it into a recent eXist (5.0.0 or newer) by going to the dashboard and selecting TEI Publisher from the package manager.
For more information refer to the documentation or visit the homepage to play around with it.
Thanks
Again our special thanks go to the Swiss Nationale Infrastruktur für Editionen - Infrastructure nationale pour les éditions for funding most of the redesign!
The Open API implementation was inspired by earlier work funded by Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO). A lot of bug fixes were supported by the Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen.