ECanon Technical Page The ECanon is an XML database of canonical texts, currently containing various versions of the Bible. Additional versions and manuscripts of the biblical text will be added over time, as will sacred texts from other religious traditions. Other important traditional texts will also eventually be present in the ECanon. The ECanon can be searched interactively from the present page, or links to specific passages or searches can be embedded in Web pages. For more information, see the ECanon Help Page. The ECanon is part of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, and it is designed to be a free online tool for scholars, students, clergy, and other interested people. The texts are copyrighted by TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, but they may be downloaded and used freely for non-commercial purposes.

ECanon Document Type Definition

The texts contained in the ECanon database were encoded according to the ECanon DTD:

<!ELEMENT ECanon (corpus)+>

<!ELEMENT corpus (version | ms)+>
<!ATTLIST corpus id CDATA #REQUIRED 
                 name CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT version (ref | sectitle)+>
<!ATTLIST version id CDATA #REQUIRED 
                  name CDATA #REQUIRED 
                  source CDATA #REQUIRED
                  edition CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT ms (ref | sectitle)+>
<!ATTLIST ms id CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT ref (ref | note | hi | sectitle | #PCDATA)+>
<!ATTLIST ref type CDATA #REQUIRED 
              uval CDATA #REQUIRED 
              cval CDATA #REQUIRED 
              aval CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT sectitle (hi | #PCDATA)+>

<!ELEMENT note (hi | #PCDATA)+>

<!ELEMENT hi (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST hi rend (i | sc | sup | sub | head) #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT mile-p (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT mile-prose (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT mile-poetry (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST mile-poetry level CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT mile-list (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT mile-item (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT mile-blank (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT mile-hr (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT mile-font (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST mile-font color (red | black) #REQUIRED>

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