XML Corpus Encoding Standard Document XCES 0.2. Last Modified 2 May 2002.

DTDs for XCES

xcesDoc.dtd: Encoding conventions for level 1
xcesAna.dtd: Encoding conventions for aligned data
xcesAlign.dtd: Encoding conventions for annotated data
xheader.elt: The CES header
xtoken.elt: NOT USED (optional)
xword.elt: NOT USED (optional)
xlink.elt: NOT USED (see below)

Usage

cesDoc resources :

        <?xml version="1.0"?>
        <!DOCTYPE cesDoc PUBLIC "-//CES//DTD XML cesDoc//EN"
                                "dtd/xcesDoc.dtd" [
        ]>...

cesAna resources :

        <?xml version="1.0"?>
        <!DOCTYPE cesDoc PUBLIC "-//CES//DTD XML cesAna//EN"
                                "dtd/xcesAna.dtd" [
        ]>...

cesAlign resources :

        <?xml version="1.0"?>
        <!DOCTYPE cesDoc PUBLIC "-//CES//DTD XML cesAlign//EN"
                                "dtd/xcesAlign.dtd" [
        ]>...

Notes

Language Identification

The attribute xml:lang (CDATA) has been added to the global attributes in parallel with the attribute lang (IDREF) to be conformant both with the XML recommendation (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-lang-tag) and the SGML CES DTDs.