Abstract

This article is intended to introduce literary scholars to the use of markup languages in general and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) in particular in the creation of electronic texts based on early English manuscripts. It is not a how-to, but primarily a survey of recent work. It notes the limitations of some popular markup languages, such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), in terms of storing, reproducing and disseminating information about medieval manuscripts, and explains ways in which XML could be used to overcome some of these limitations. It also describes the use of XML in a research project based at the University of Manchester's Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

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