Appendix C1. Introductory Note (November 2001)

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Appendix C1. Introductory Note (November 2001)

Introductory Note (March 2002)

1 About These Guidelines

2 A Gentle Introduction to XML

3 Structure of the TEI Document Type Definition

4 Languages and Character Sets

5 The TEI Header

6 Elements Available in All TEI Documents

7 Default Text Structure

8 Base Tag Set for Prose

9 Base Tag Set for Verse

10 Base Tag Set for Drama

11 Transcriptions of Speech

12 Print Dictionaries

13 Terminological Databases

14 Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment

15 Simple Analytic Mechanisms

16 Feature Structures

17 Certainty and Responsibility

18 Transcription of Primary Sources

19 Critical Apparatus

20 Names and Dates

21 Graphs, Networks, and Trees

22 Tables, Formulae, and Graphics

23 Language Corpora

24 The Independent Header

25 Writing System Declaration

26 Feature System Declaration

27 Tag Set Documentation

28 Conformance

29 Modifying and Customizing the TEI DTD

30 Rules for Interchange

31 Multiple Hierarchies

32 Algorithm for Recognizing Canonical References

33 Element Classes

34 Entities

35 Elements

36 Obtaining the TEI DTD

37 Obtaining TEI WSDs

38 Sample Tag Set Documentation

39 Formal Grammar for the TEI-Interchange-Format Subset of SGML

Appendix A Bibliography

Appendix B Index

Appendix C1. Introductory Note (November 2001)

Appendix D Colophon

To complete the work started in June of this year, the TEI Editors asked for volunteers from the TEI community to proof-read the preliminary XML version. 24 volunteers responded to this call during August, and gave invaluable help both by identifying a number of previously un-noticed errors, and by suggesting areas in which more substantial revision should be undertaken in the future. The Editors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals during this exercise:

Jimmy Adair, Syd Bauman, Michael Beddow, Steven Bird, Lisa Charlong, Matthew Driscoll, Patrick Durusau, Tomaz Erjavec, Nick Finke, Tim Finney, Julia Flanders, Mike Fraser, Pankaj Kamthan, François Lachance, Terry Langendoen, Anne Mahoney, Gregory Murphy, Daniel Pitti, Rafal Prinke, Laurent Romary, Stewart Russell, Gary Simons, Elisabeth Solopova, Christian Wittern, Martin Wynne.

In addition to error correction, and clear delineation of those sections in which substantial revision is yet to be undertaken for TEI P5, the present draft differs from earlier ones in the following respects:

• Formal Public Identifiers have been introduced as a means of constructing TEI DTDs and an SGML Open Catalog is now included with the standard release;
• Some systematic errors and omissions in the reference section have been removed; the format of this section has been substantially changed, we hope for the better;
• The chapters on obtaining the TEI DTDs and WSDs have been brought up to date; the chapter on modification has been expanded to include a discussion of the TEI Lite customization;
• All examples and cited markup has been checked for XML validity against the published DTDs, and corrected where faulty; examples have been formatted in a (more or less) consistent style.

Lou Burnard and Syd Bauman (Editors)

Oxford and Providence, November 2001.