get_text_tei: Retrieve a text for a play in 'TEI'

In rdracor: Access to the 'DraCor' API

Retrieve a text for a play in 'TEI'

Description

get_text_tei() requests a text for a play in 'TEI' format, given play and corpus names. 'TEI' is an XML vocabulary, which makes it easy to extract structural information \insertCitefischer2019programmablerdracor.

Usage

get_text_tei(play = NULL, corpus = NULL, ...)

Arguments

play	Character, name of a play (you can find all play names in "playName" column within an object returned by get_dracor). Character vector (longer than 1) is not supported.
corpus	Character, name of the corpus (you can find all corpus names in name column within an object returned by get_dracor_meta).
...	Additional arguments passed to dracor_api.

Value

TEI data parsed by xml2::read_xml(). The document keeps the TEI namespace, so XPath expressions need the d1: prefix, e.g. xml2::xml_find_all(tei, "//d1:sp"). Run xml2::xml_ns_strip(tei) if you prefer to use XPath without prefixes.

References

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See Also

get_text_df get_text_chr_spoken tei_to_df

Examples

get_text_tei(play = "lessing-emilia-galotti", corpus = "ger")
# If you want a text in TEI without parsing by xml2::read_xml():
get_text_tei(play = "lessing-emilia-galotti", corpus = "ger", parse = FALSE)

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