Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3)

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Table of Contents

Prefatory Comments

• [view full Chapter] Note
• [view full Chapter] Acknowledgments [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] Changes from TEI P1 to TEI P3

Introduction

• [view full Chapter] 1: About These Guidelines [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 2: A Gentle Introduction to SGML [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 3: Structure of the TEI Document Type Definition [view list of sections]

Core Tags and General Rules

• [view full Chapter] 4: Characters and Character Sets [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 5: The TEI Header [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 6:Elements Available in All TEI Documents [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 7: Default Text Structure [view list of sections]

Base Tag Sets

• [view full Chapter] 8: Base Tag Set for Prose
• [view full Chapter] 9: Base Tag Set for Verse [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 10: Base Tag Set for Drama [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 11: Transcriptions of Speech [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 12: Print Dictionaries [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 13: Terminological Databases [view list of sections]

Additional Tag Sets

• [view full Chapter] 14: Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 15: Simple Analytic Mechanisms [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 16: Feature Structures [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 17: Certainty and Responsibility [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 18: Transcription of Primary Sources [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 19: Critical Apparatus [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 20: Names and Dates [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 21: Graphs, Networks, and Trees [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 22: Tables, Formulae, and Graphics [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 23: Language Corpora [view list of sections]

Auxiliary Document Types

• [view full Chapter] 24: The Independent Header [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 25: Writing System Declaration [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 26: Feature System Declaration [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 27: Tag Set Documentation [view list of sections]

Technical Topics

• [view full Chapter] 28:Conformance [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 29: Modifying the TEI DTD [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 30: Rules for Interchange[view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 31: Multiple Hierarchies [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 32: Algorithm for Recognizing Canonical References

Alphabetical Reference List of Tags and Attributes

• [view full Chapter] 33: Element Classes [view list of Element Classes]
• [view full Chapter] 34: Entities [view list of Parameter Entities]
• [view full Chapter] 35: Elements [view list of Elements]

Reference Material

• [view full Chapter] 36: Obtaining the TEI DTD
• [view full Chapter] 37: Obtaining TEI WSDs
• [view full Chapter] 38: Sample Tag Set Documentation [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] 39: Formal Grammar for the TEI-Interchange-Format Subset of SGML [view list of sections]
• [view full Chapter] Bibliography