Yiddish Theatre Project

The Schema for our XML mark-up

 
start = newspaper
newspaper = element newspaper { title, printYear }
title = element title { text }
printYear = element printYear { year, issue }
year = attribute year { xsd:gYear }
issue = element issue { date, ad+ }
date = attribute date { xsd:gMonthDay }
ad = element ad { yiddish, page, show+ }
show = element show { medium, title, actors?, venue, performance }
yiddish = attribute yiddish { "yes" | "no" }
medium = attribute medium { "film" | "photoplay" | "play" | "standup" | "musical" | "theatre" }
page = attribute page { xsd:int }
actors = element actors { actor+ }
actor = element actor { origin?, text }
origin = attribute origin { "local" | "alien" }
venue = element venue { text }
performance = element performance { text }

Sample of our XML mark-up
Summer 1925

<newspaper>
    <lt;title>The Jewish Chronicle</title>
    <printYear year="1925">
        <issue date="--07-03">
     <ad yiddish="no" page="30">
       <show medium="film">
           <title>"Introduce Me"</title>
           <actors><actor>Douglas MacLean</actor></actors>
           <venue>Manor</venue>
          <performance>Sunday, July 4th</performance>
       </show>
         <show medium="film">
             <title> "The Talker"</title>
             <actors><actor>Anna Q. Nilson</actor></actors>
             <venue>Manor</venue>
             <performance>Monday-Tuesday, July 6-7th</performance>
         </show>
         <show medium="film">
             <title>"Super Speed"</title>
             <actors><actor>Reed Hoives</actor></actors>
             <venue>Manor</venue>
             <performance>Wednesday, July 8th</performance>
         </show>
         <show medium="film">
             <title>"The Way of a Girl"</title>
             <actors><actor>Elinor Boardman</actor></actors>
             <venue>Manor</venue>
             <performance>Thursday, July 9th</performance>
         </show>
         <show medium="film">
             <title>"The Shock Punch"</title>
             <actors><actor>Richard Dix</actor></actors>
             <venue>Manor</venue>
             <performance>Friday, July 10</performance>
         </show>
     </ad>
            <ad yiddish="no" page="30"> 
                <show medium="film">
                    <title>"The Necessary Evil"</title>
                    <actors><actor>Ben Lyon</actor></actors>
                    <venue>Liberty</venue>
                    <performance> Week commencing July 6th</performance>
                </show>
            </ad>
            <ad yiddish="no" page="30">
                <show medium="musical">
                    <title> Fifth Jazz Week Show</title>
                    <actors><actor>Rita Owin</actor> <actor>Joe Thomas</actor>
                    <actor>Blanche Sweet</actor><actor>Ronald Colman</actor><actor>Lew Cody<
                    /actor></actors>
                    <venue>Loews Aldine</venue>
                    <performance>Beginning Monday, July 6th</performance>
                </show>
            </ad>         
        </issue>
    </printYear>
</newspaper>

Fall 1935

                    <newspaper>
    <title>The Jewish Criterion</title>
    <printYear year="1935">
        <issue date="--09-13">
            <ad yiddish="no" page="25">
                <show medium="film">
                    <title>The Tango King and The Darling of the Two Continents</title>
                    <actors>
                        <actor>Carmen Castillo</actor>
                        <actor>Eva Reyes</actor>
                    </actors>
                    <venue>Stanley</venue>
                    <performance>sunday at midnite</performance>
                </show>
            </ad>
   <ad yiddish="no" page="25">
                            <show medium="film">
                                <title>Accent on Youth</title>
                                <actors>
                                    <actor>Herbert Marshall</actor>
                                    <actor>Sylvia Sidney</actor>
                                </actors>
                                <venue>Stanley</venue>
                                <performance>sunday at midnite</performance>
                            </show>
                   </ad>
        </issue> 
    </printYear>
</newspaper>