Goals of the TEI


  • better interchange and integration of scholarly data
  • support for all texts, in all languages, from all periods
  • guidance for the perplexed: what to encode — hence, a user-driven codification of existing best practice
  • assistance for the specialist: how to encode — hence, a loose framework into which unpredictable extensions can be fitted

These apparently incompatible goals result in a highly flexible, modular, environment for DTD customization.


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