This is somewhat contrary to the standard reliance upon a modern eclectic text in New Testament scholarship. This newly edited version of P.Oxy. 119 utilizes a schema for producing electronically tagged texts of papyri and related documents. Papyrus Annotation Demonstration for P.Oxy. Posted OpenText.org is developing a series of XML annotation specifications for the encoding of papyrus texts.
Annotation takes place at a series of different levels.
This document describes the theory and XML elements and attributes for the encoding the base level characters. Prof. S.E. Porter for the development of XML-based texts and tools for the discourse analysis of the New Testament. The XML standard restricts the format of a token functioning as an XML name . The use of colons in XML Namespaces presents a difficultly to the convention of using colons in biblical references, e.g. Matt. This proposal suggests standardized names for biblical texts and a standard reference format for use in XML documents.