TEI Lite: a 90% solution

TEI Lite: a view of the TEI

Basic structure(s)

Basic TEI structure...

Structure of a TEI text

Basic TEI structure...

A text usually has  divisions

for example...

Use of global attributes

Character Encoding Recommendations

Text components in TEI Lite

Verse: an example

Drama: an example

Texts are not just words...

For example...

"And this Indenture further witnesseth"

Who does the work?

Phrase level elements

for example...

Direct speech

“Foreign” language phrases

Referring strings

Dates, times, numbers

Correction and Regularization

Omissions, Deletions, Additions

The multiple hierarchy problem

Boundary markers

Some chunks are also phrases

Lists

for example...

Figures and graphics

  for example...

Tables

for example...

Bibliography

for example...

Notes

for example...

Out of line bibliographic notes

Links and pointers

Terminology

Cross References

HTML-style pointers in TEI

TEI X-pointers

TEI X- pointers

... and links

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A three way alignment

Front and back matter

Example titlepage elements

Not covered here...

Summary