TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (P4)
PART I: Introduction

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• PART I: Introduction
  • 1.1. About These Guidelines
    • 1.1.1. Structure and Notational Conventions of this Document
      • 1.1.1.1. Structure
      • 1.1.1.2. Notational Conventions
    • 1.1.2. Underlying Principles and Intended Use
      • 1.1.2.1. Design Principles of the TEI Scheme
      • 1.1.2.2. Intended Use
        • 1.1.2.2.1. Use in Text Capture and Text Creation
        • 1.1.2.2.2. Use for Interchange
        • 1.1.2.2.3. Use for Local Processing
    • 1.1.3. Historical Background
      • 1.1.3.1. Origin and Development of the TEI
      • 1.1.3.2. Future Developments
  • 1.2. A Gentle Introduction to XML
    • 1.2.1. What's special about XML?
      • 1.2.1.1. Descriptive markup
      • 1.2.1.2. Types of document
      • 1.2.1.3. Data independence
    • 1.2.2. Textual structure
    • 1.2.3. XML structures
      • 1.2.3.1. Elements
      • 1.2.3.2. Content models: an example
    • 1.2.4. Validating a document's structure
      • 1.2.4.1. An example DTD
      • 1.2.4.2. Generic identifier
      • 1.2.4.3. Content model
      • 1.2.4.4. Occurrence indicators
      • 1.2.4.5. Connectors
      • 1.2.4.6. Model groups
    • 1.2.5. Complicating the issue
    • 1.2.6. Attributes
      • 1.2.6.1. ID and IDREF attributes
    • 1.2.7. Entities
      • 1.2.7.1. Entity declarations
      • 1.2.7.2. Entity references
      • 1.2.7.3. Character references
      • 1.2.7.4. Unparsed entities and Notations
      • 1.2.7.5. Parameter entities
    • 1.2.8. Marked sections
    • 1.2.8.1. CDATA marked section
    • 1.2.8.2. Conditional marked section
    • 1.2.9. Processing instructions
    • 1.2.9.1. Namespaces
    • 1.2.10. Putting it all together
    • 1.2.10.1. SGML and XML declarations
    • 1.2.10.2. The DOCTYPE declaration
    • 1.2.10.3. The Document Instance
    • 1.2.10.4. Ancillary Files
  • 1.3. Structure of the TEI Document Type Definition
  • 1.3.1. Main and Auxiliary DTDs
  • 1.3.2. Core, Base, and Additional Tag Sets
  • 1.3.2.1. The Core Tag Sets
  • 1.3.2.2. The Base Tag Sets
  • 1.3.2.3. The Additional Tag Sets
  • 1.3.2.4. User-Defined Tag Sets
  • 1.3.3. Invocation of the TEI DTD
  • 1.3.4. Combining TEI Base Tag Sets
  • 1.3.5. Global Attributes
  • 1.3.6. The TEI2.DTD File
  • 1.3.6.1. Structure of the TEI2.DTD File
  • 1.3.6.2. Embedding Local Modifications
  • 1.3.6.3. Embedding the Core Tag Sets
  • 1.3.6.4. Embedding the Base Tag Set
  • 1.3.6.5. Embedding the Additional Tag Sets
  • 1.3.7. Element Classes
  • 1.3.7.1. Classes Which Share Attributes
  • 1.3.7.2. Classes Used in Content Models
  • 1.3.7.3. The TEICLAS2.ENT File
  • 1.3.7.4. Low-Level Element Classes
  • 1.3.7.5. High-Level Element Classes
  • 1.3.7.6. Elements Marked for Text Type
  • 1.3.7.7. Standard Content Models
  • 1.3.7.8. Components in Mixed and General Bases
  • 1.3.7.9. Miscellaneous Content-Model Classes
  • 1.3.8. Other Parameter Entities in TEI DTDs
  • 1.3.8.1. Inclusion and Exclusion of Elements
  • 1.3.8.2. Parameter Entities for Element Generic Identifiers
  • 1.3.8.3. Parameter Entities for TEI Keywords
  • 1.3.8.4. Generation of an XML DTD
  • 1.3.8.5. Declaration of TEI keywords