PART I: Introduction

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1: About these Guidelines

• 1.1: Structure and Notational Conventions of this Document
  • 1.1.1: Structure
  • 1.1.2: Notational Conventions

• 1.2: Underlying Principles and Intended Use
  • 1.2.1: Design Principles of the TEI Scheme
  • 1.2.2: Intended Use
    • 1.2.2.1: Use in Text Capture and Text Creation
    • 1.2.2.2: Use for Interchange
    • 1.2.2.3: Use for Local Processing

• 1.3: Historical Background
  • 1.3.1: Origin and Development of the TEI
  • 1.3.2: Future Developments

2: A Gentle Introduction to SGML

• 2.1: What's Special about SGML?
  • 2.1.1: Descriptive Markup
  • 2.1.2: Types of Document
  • 2.1.3: Data Independence

• 2.2: Textual Structure
• 2.3: SGML Structures
  • 2.3.1: Elements
  • 2.3.2: Content Models: An Example

• 2.4: Defining SGML Document Structures: The DTD
  • 2.4.1: An Example DTD
  • 2.4.2: Minimization Rules
  • 2.4.3: Content Model
  • 2.4.4: Occurrence Indicators
  • 2.4.5: Group Connectors
  • 2.4.6: Model Groups

• 2.5: Complicating the Issue: More on Element Declarations
  • 2.5.1: Exceptions to the Content Model
  • 2.5.2: Concurrent Structures

• 2.6: Attributes
• 2.7: SGML Entities
• 2.8: Marked Sections
• 2.9: Putting It All Together
  • 2.9.1: The SGML Declaration
  • 2.9.2: The DTD
  • 2.9.3: The Document Instance

• 2.10: Using SGML

3: Structure of the TEI Document Type Definition

• 3.1: Main and Auxiliary DTDs
• 3.2: Core, Base, and Additional Tag Sets
  • 3.2.1: The Core Tag Sets
  • 3.2.2: The Base Tag Sets
  • 3.2.3: The Additional Tag Sets
  • 3.2.4: User-Defined Tag Sets

• 3.3: Invocation of the TEI DTD
• 3.4: Combining TEI Base Tag Sets
• 3.5: Global Attributes
• 3.6: The TEI2.DTD File
  • 3.6.1: Structure of the TEI2.DTD File
  • 3.6.2: Embedding Local Modifications
  • 3.6.3: Embedding the Core Tag Sets
  • 3.6.4: Embedding the Base Tag Set
  • 3.6.5: Embedding the Additional Tag Sets

• 3.7: Element Classes
  • 3.7.1: Classes Which Share Attributes
  • 3.7.2: Classes Used in Content Models
  • 3.7.3: The TEICLAS2.ENT File
  • 3.7.4: Low-Level Element Classes
  • 3.7.5: High-Level Element Classes
  • 3.7.6: Elements Marked for Text Type
  • 3.7.7: Standard Content Models
  • 3.7.8: Components in Mixed and General Bases
  • 3.7.9: Miscellaneous Content-Model Classes

• 3.8: Other Parameter Entities in TEI DTDs
  • 3.8.1: Inclusion and Exclusion of Elements
  • 3.8.2: Parameter Entities for Element Generic Identifiers
  • 3.8.3: Parameter Entities for TEI Keywords